[Osmf-talk] Next OSMF Board Meeting 2017-04-18

[Ilya Zverev]

To clarify, we would be discussing this coastline fixing project: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/imagico/diary/40759 (the edits are still coming).

The board has been contacted by the company that employs people who do these edits, but we cannot (at least now) disclose its name. The DWG knows it and the whole backstory, of course, since it is up to them what to do with these people and their edits.

So the discussion today will be mostly about corporate communications, not the map editing. We don't like the imposed confidentiality as well, and that will be one of the topics.

As far as I remember, we don't have any special policy about corporate or paid editing: as long as these editors respect the contributor's terms and answer to the community, as we all do, they are free to do anything.

Ilya

> 18 апр. 2017 г., в 13:32, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de> написал(а):
> 
> On Tuesday 18 April 2017, Peter Barth wrote:
>> 
>> the topic is kind of misleading and only the headline for an issue
>> that deserves secrecy in parts. A general discussion about such an
>> topic will be public for sure.
>> 
>> The main issue is, that we couldn't finish to discuss yet, how much
>> and what we can/may disclose.
> 
> Hello Peda,
> 
> my main problem here is in general with the concept of organizational 
> secrets w.r.t. matters of fundamental community concern.  
> 
> Since board meetings have become public you have had closed parts IIRC 
> on the matters of administrative assistent recruiting (obvious since 
> personal information is involved here) and specific corporate donations 
> (which is also quite clearly serving the mission of the OSMF since 
> being able to discuss the possibility of donations confidentially is 
> certainly important for many potential donors).
> 
> It is natural that board members individually have knowledge of 
> confidential information they won't disclose (like things that are part 
> of their day jobs).  But if there are shared secrets between the board 
> members as part of board business that are not accessible to the OSM 
> community this IMO has to have a plausible and publicly documented 
> reason that is clearly in line with and serves the mission of the OSMF.
> 
> While i can easily imagine that information about corporate map editing 
> that is not publicly known becomes known to board members there should 
> IMO normally be no expectation of confidentiality regarding such 
> information when such things are shared and discussed on the board.
> 
> But to be constructive on the matter at hand - maybe just consider if 
> you have a clear reason for secrecy that you can publicly communicate 
> or alternatively if you can limit discourse on the matter of corporate 
> map editing to things that can be done in the open.
> 
> -- 
> Christoph Hormann
> http://www.imagico.de/
> 
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