[Osmf-talk] Welcome Mat for Organizations
Christoph Hormann
chris_hormann at gmx.de
Wed Nov 28 15:44:03 UTC 2018
On Wednesday 28 November 2018, Mikel Maron wrote:
>
> > further maintainance and improvement of this to the CWG
>
> It's not a topic which has come up yet, as we were just focused on
> publishing the site. It made sense for the Advisory Board to take the
> lead to launch it, since they have the experience to know what they
> wish they had known before.
I am not sure what you mean by the advisory board taking the lead. The
advisory board members were invited to comment and contribute but as you
can see on github:
https://github.com/osmfoundation/welcome-mat/commits/gh-pages
where you were making almost all of the content editing. There are
references to a hackathron in the commit messages which might have been
visited by representatives from the advisory board. But to say the
advisory board as a whole had the lead on this is not an accurate
representation of history.
As Tom already said i would also say that the advisory board or
individual advisory board members having an active role in the
editorial process of an official OSMF document is inappropriate. The
purpose of the advisory board is to advise the board of directors, it
is not to take over functions from the working groups. As it is with
you being the one who has editorial control over this you have the
resposibility to make sure this is in line with the goals of the OSMF
and the design goals of the welcome mat project as decided on by the
board.
And i want to reiterate that i think this resposibility should be turned
over to the CWG if that project is to be presented on
openstreetmap.org. This is IMO both common sense and what as cited the
OSMF mission and the scope of the board call for. If the CWG currently
does not have the ressources to work on that it would be no problem to
reach out to the OSM community in general to recruit more people to
specifically work on it.
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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/
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