[Osmf-talk] Upcoming board elections

[Simon Poole]

Am 25.11.2016 um 13:33 schrieb Christoph Hormann:
> ...
> I do not necessarily disagree but it seems pretty clear to me this would 
> not be good for the OSMF and the OSM project as a whole in the long 
> term.  I don't have to be an opponent of the current board and its 
> members to recognize that the current direction of the OSMF and the 
> views and ideas represented by the current board do not represent a 
> consensus position of the OSM community as a whole.  It might be the 
> majority position of the voiceful active contributors, it might even be 
> the majority position of OSM community members overall but i am pretty 
> sure there are significant minorities with clearly diverging views on 
> things.  And even if such views are not mine i would want them to be 
> properly voiced and discussed in community discourse which includes 
> them being voiced and represented by candidates in the board elections.  
> And it is the purpose of the elections to discern views and people with 
> significant support from those which have no significant backing in the 
> community.....

I would totally agree if we were actually talking about a political body
with substantial rule setting power and a executive arm that would carry
out grand plans laid down by it. But in reality the OSMF board only has
very limited power and  I'm not quite sure if the current board has
voiced any views and ideas that are not completely mainstream.

Not that we should be totally happy with the current board,  we were
promised action on both the base term length and term limits and nothing
has happened, but I willing to assume a "yet" there (aka the normal OSMF
glacial pace). It would simply be easier to put something in place as
long as we don't have obvious issues again.

Simon

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