[Osmf-talk] Fwd: Dorothea's hours for SotM WG

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 23 December 2019, Mikel Maron, OSM wrote:
> Right we have used google forms, that feeds into google sheets for
> the evaluation process. Yes we could use another system for form
> submission, but we would simply move them into sheets. Changing the
> form submission wouldn’t have any material effect on our current set
> up.

It would have the most material effect of not requiring the applicants 
to disclose their personal information to a third party company.  Of 
course you would then have no legal way to provide the data to Google 
afterwards without the applicant's consent.

But using Google services for the scoring is of course a massive problem 
on its own even if you ignore the privacy and potential industrial 
espionage issues because it essentially excludes people like me from 
participating in the scholarship committee because we would never sign 
up with Google.  Depending on your perspective you might of course 
consider that an advantage but it is definitely discriminating and kind 
of ironic considering Google being OSMs competition in some ways...

> The evaluation process is the key thing where we need to 
> collaboratively score and evaluate.

Scoring is by definition done by each reviewer independently.  In fact 
if reviewers can see each other's scoring results in a collaborative 
tool that would usually be considered problematic because it tends to 
distort the results and defeats the whole idea of having different 
people making independent assessments.

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