[Osmf-talk] [OSM-talk] OSMF Board face-to face meeting: Suggest the topics and issues that matter to you

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Christoph,

I agree, the board should consider how to protect the community and
project from any overbearing organizations or individuals who feel
they should run the project.

Cheers,
Blake

On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 8:27 AM Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 09 May 2019, Paul Norman wrote:
> > >>
> > >> https://osmf.limequery.org/489698?lang=en
> > >
> > > Will the answers be published?
> >
> > We're adding a checkbox to cover that.
>
> I just filled out the survey and was not being asked to check such a
> box.
>
> Anyway - i will just be proactively transparent about it and copy my
> answer here:
>
> The single most important todo for the OSMF this year is to protect
> itself against hostile takeover attempts and regulatory capture of the
> OSMF by special (in particular economic) interests and to protect the
> OSM community from a rogue OSMF should such takeover/regulatory capture
> happen despite all efforts to prevent it.
>
> IMO the board should therefore not spend time on any other matters
> beyond day-to-day business until it either has come up with and agreed
> on a viable and robust strategy how to deal with these problems to
> present to the members or has decided to give the mandate to develop
> such a strategy back to the members.
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann
> http://www.imagico.de/
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