[Osmf-talk] Membership Working Group report on unusual signups before OSMF election

[john whelan]

Agreed.

Cheerio John

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 4:01 AM Spike <spikeuk1 at gmail.com wrote:

> Fascinating read,
>
> Many thanks to all on the Membership Working Group for all their hard work!
>
> Spike
>
> On 26/01/2019 01:03, Guillaume Rischard wrote:
> > Hello fellow OSMF Members,
> >
> > 100 persons employed by one company joined the OSMF in an orchestrated,
> directed campaign on 15 Nov, which has been discussed here on [osmf-talk]
> and elsewhere.
> >
> > We have uncovered evidence that the company behind the campaign,
> GlobalLogic, is not being truthful, and that the members did not sign up
> individually. GlobalLogic has provided versions of the event that are
> contradictory and not credible.
> >
> > We do not know the motivations for this campaign, but strongly suspect
> that this was an attempt, luckily unsuccessful, to influence the recent
> OSMF board election.
> >
> > Our intensive research took two main investigators more than a month,
> with the precious help of many in the community. On 2018-12-26 we presented
> our detailed report to the OSMF board. We are now releasing it to the
> membership.
> >
> > Some key points of the investigation are the fortuitous French control
> group (p. 7 and onwards) and the lowercase anomaly (p. 14).
> >
> > We expect this will raise a number of questions in the community: some
> concerning the incident itself, others related to wider governance. The
> report makes several recommendations.
> >
> > MWG and the authors will try to answer any questions you have about the
> report here, but can also be contacted at membership at osmfoundation.org.
> >
> > Report (PDF) https://openstreetmap.lu/MWGGlobalLogicReport20181226.pdf
> >
> > --- Steve (.US) & Guillaume (.LU), for the Membership Working Group
> >
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