[Osmf-talk] Board decision on recent OSMF membership registrations

[Rihards]

On 24.11.18 22:52, Kate Chapman wrote:
> Perhaps that last paragraph from the board was not clear. The members
> being discussed are not eligible to vote this year as they did not meet
> the deadline as stated here: "In years past this has been interpreted as
> the start of the day 30 days prior to the meeting, according to
> the timezone in CiviCRM. This is how OSMF will proceed this year,
> meaning eligible voters need to be signed up prior to November 15."

Thank you, it was indeed not clear to me - I read the original statement
as if these registrations were in just time for the election this year.

This makes it less worrying, but only short-term. Will have to work on
getting more people involved in OSMF :)

> -Kate
> 
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 12:50 PM Rihards <richlv at nakts.net
> <mailto:richlv at nakts.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 24.11.18 22:41, Rihards wrote:
>     > On 24.11.18 22:08, Heather Leson wrote:
>     >> Hi Christoph thank you for your questions. The board really spent
>     much
>     >> time discussing. Comments inline.
>     >>
>     >> Heather
>     > ...
>     >>     > > There had been a mass sign-up of 100 new accounts on
>     15.11.2018
>     >>     > > from India, most coming from one single IP address from a
>     company
>     >>     > > "well known" to OpenStreetMap. There had been a larger
>     amount of
>     >>     > > complaints regarding edits from that company, who provide
>     "mapping
>     >>     > > services" to other companies.
>     >>
>     >>     What is the reason for not disclosing the name of the company? 
>     >>     Since it
>     >>     apparently was identified without any help of them i see no
>     problem
>     >>     with disclosing that.  Apart from that who did identify said
>     company?
>     >>
>     >> The important factor is that 100 members joined from India, a country
>     >> with 1 BILLION people. This is exciting and I welcome them to be
>     fully
>     >> engaged and meet the community. I hope that they can get to know
>     each of
>     >> you and be part of the the community going forward.
>     >>
>     >> Members are members. I don't think that we should focus on where they
>     >> work. I am not personally defined by my workplace.
>     > Heather, I would disagree that the important factor is ratio of new
>     > members against the population of their home country, and I would also
>     > disagree that employee should be ignored.
>     > Especially so when the registrations happen 4 days before the voting
>     > deadline, on the same day.
>     >
>     > What I consider important is that this is a 14.5% increase in OSMF
>     > vote-eligible membership[1].
> 
>     ...likely messed up the calculations and the increase is 9.7%.
> 
>     Our election turnout last year seems to be 63% -
>     https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2017/Minutes
>     .
> 
>     > As an individual mapper I find this highly worrying, and I find
>     > concentrating on the country population dishonest.
>     >
>     > [1] Based on the latest value from
>     > https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Membership/Statistics
>     >
>     > ...
>     -- 
>      Rihards
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 Rihards