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

[Manfred A. Reiter]

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Am 18.04.2017 3:21 nachm. schrieb "Blake Girardot" <bgirardot at gmail.com>:

Greetings,

I appreciate the Board is acting in a very professional way to build
relationships with institutions, organizations and companies that make
use of OpenStreetMap. Ultimately as OSM continues to grow both in size
and importance it is by having a professional, responsible board and
organization that will ensure OSM's continued success.

I fully the trust the Board has OSM's best interests in mind and only
acts to support our community and this important open data project.

Keep up the great work!

Cheers,
Blake

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Michael Reichert <nakaner at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 18.04.2017 um 13:33 schrieb Ilya Zverev:
>> 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.
>
> But if the edits are harmful we are still free to revert them. The DWG
> does not need a written guideline to block a group which has been asked
> to temporarily stop its edits and discuss their edits. OSM is a
> community project in the open and finally the community can forbid
> anyone to edit (the DWG is the police enforcing the will of the
> community and taking care for the balance of forces). Please don't
> behave like a Wikipedia blocked user who argues with administrators and
> claims that his editing behaviour was not forbidden.
>
> A guideline documents how the OSM community expects organized mapping
> activities to be. Organized mapping activities which don't meet the
> expections of the community  will get into trouble once they have been
> discovered. In reality, many groups who edit in an organized manner on
> local level (fire brigades, school classes, university courses, the
> local transport authority, …) will read the guideline after another
> mapper tells them that they have "violated" it.
>
> A guideline can be a shortcut for people who are in touch with a group
> of organized mappers. It can replace a long email explaining why their
> edits are not good and why they must discuss things first. It can (this
> depends on the wording of the guideline) justify a revert which saves
> the rare spare time of our volunteers cleaning a mess up but brings
> along some collateral damage (reverting good edits).
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
>
>
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