[Osmf-talk] OSMF Board Election - Official candidate questions now published

[Heather Leson]

Thanks for your professionalism and leadership!


Candidates : good luck as these questions are thorough.


Heather

On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, 11:07 Michael Collinson, <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:

> I have now produced a collated questions for candidates to answer.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM19/Election_to_Board
>
> Candidates, please a rough estimate of how long it takes you and let me
> know. This will help me or future volunteers keep it reasonable. My
> particular concern is the impact on non-native English speakers.
>
> Thank you to all who posted questions. If you have any feedback or
> concerns about what I have done, please do feel free to let me know
> publicly or privately.
>
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>
> OK, that is the announcement done, but for transparency, here are some
> notes on my methodology:
>
> I want to strike a balance between candidate's time and "censorship",
> (i.e. not including everyone's questions). I also want as much as I can
> to set a level playing field for non-native English-speaking candidates
> and candidates from non-Western cultures.
>
> Last year it took candidates who responded to me at least 8 hours to
> compile answers. Two candidates took well over that. I had some
> thoughtful private feedback from 3 folks who had posted community
> questions. Last year, I generalised questions as much as I could and
> ruthlessly cut anything that was "What is your position on X" and not
> clearly OSM-related. That meant I filtered out specificity and had some
> soul-searching as to what to do with identity politics. As a result of
> the feedback, I have tried something a bit different this year: There
> are more very specific/complex/perhaps controversial questions but I
> have given candidates some choice in what questions they want to tackle
> - so I hope it is not too overwhelming. In particular, there is a "What
> would you do?" section where I have taken a number of questions and
> presented them as if there were board agenda items.
>
> Last year, Dorothea put the unedited community questions below the
> "official" set. I thought that worked very well for transparency and we
> are repeating it this year.
>
> If you are curious about last year's questions, here is the link:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM18/Election_to_Board#Official_set_of_questions
>
> Mike
>
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