[Osmf-talk] statistics from the membership drive

[Joseph Reeves]

No.

There's 131 current HOT Members, the majority of which are not from the US.
You also don't know how many HOT members were OSMF members before that note
from Tyler went out.

So a connection seems very unlikely, at best.

Joseph



On 3 Dec 2017 16:20, "Jean-Guilhem Cailton" <jgc at arkemie.org> wrote:

> Le 03/12/2017 à 16:36, Christoph Hormann a écrit :
>
> On Sunday 03 December 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
> This looks like a fairly significant increase in the
> over-representation of the US in OSMF membership compared to the
> demographics of the OSM community as a whole.
>
>
> I'd like to avoid making this sound as if US American members were
> somehow to blame for their own "over-representation". Let's try and
> get more mappers to join and this will fix itself ;)
>
>
> I just meant this in a purely matter-of-factly way - no blame implied.
>
>
>
> Tyler Radford, Executive Director of HOT US Inc., made a call to members
> of HOT US Inc to become members of the OSMF before November 8 to be
> eligible to vote.
>
> Could there be a connection?
>
> Jean-Guilhem
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