[Osmf-talk] Next OSMF Board Meeting 2018-06-21 (Thursday) at 21:00 London time

[Christoph Hormann]

I wanted to bring up two additional points regarding the agenda - i also 
bring them up here now because in the meetings comments from guests are 
usually only allowed afterwards and these might be useful to have 
beforehand.

* FOSS policy compliance - i wanted to remind everyone that this applies 
not only to the board but also to the working groups.  The policy calls 
for a re-evaluation of use of non-open tools and services every two 
years but unfortunately it does not require this evaluation to be 
publicly documented.  Therefore it is not clear to the OSMF members 
where such tools and services are used at the moment by the working 
groups internally.  Where we can see it is for example the LWG minutes 
which as i have said before should clearly be moved to OSMF 
infrastructure at least for achiving.

* Microgrants update - the fact that we still have no information on 
anything specific on the state of this since no minutes of the 
face-to-face meetings have been published so far is troubling.  I 
wanted to point out to the board that not giving the OSMF members and 
the OSM community opportunity to review and comment on your plans could 
easily mean that you work out something you consider final where people 
have serious objections to which could easily undermine the legitimacy 
of and support for the program.  Giving out money, in particular money 
that could also be spent for other purposes, is always a sensitive 
matter and i have the gut feeling that you underestimate the importance 
of transparency in this field - in depth transparency from the start 
and not just an add on "icing on the cake" to make it look good.

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/