[Osmf-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

[Edward Bainton]

Hi Mike

I appreciate you putting yourself forward for the board positions. I've
read your manifesto and I wonder if you could clarify some things:

You say "My Facebook (FB) obligations encourage me to work in the best
interests of the OSM project."
"Encourage" is not "require". Would you have any contractual obligation to
work in the interests of Facebook if you were on the board? What assurance
can you give that you would exercise your own independent judgment,
espeically given your employment in what (sounds to be) a core unit in
Facebook's mapping work?

You also say "My candidacy for the OSMF board has been vetted by
communications and legal representatives at Facebook". To me this
suggests that Facebook would have a controlling influence over you if you
were a board member. Could you clarify?

In answering these two questions it would be useful if you could address
the difference between "Facebook's and OSMF's objectives are compatible"
(which I infer is your view) and "OSM and Facebook are different legal
persons and will necessarily have different interests".

I'm also interested that you say "Facebook has been a consistent supporter
of the OSM community, growth of the project, and OSM’s ODbL license
strategy."
Could you please share some examples of this support?

Thanks for your time and effort in fielding questions about your candidacy.
Regards,

Edward / eteb3

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 19:03, Michal Migurski <mike at teczno.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I’m excited to be running for the OSMF board this year! In 2021, OSM’s
> community has two opportunities to grow stronger together: we should make
> the OSM organization support a wider diversity of participants and we must
> succeed at starting to manage our technical operations professionally.
>
> I’d like to make myself available for conversations with anyone who has
> questions about my candidacy, manifesto, priorities, or really anything
> else. I did this last year when I ran and ended up having a few really fun
> conversations with community members. I’m blocking these four times over
> the next two weeks prior to the close of voting and AGM on Dec 12; get in
> touch via email if you’d like to chat by text, voice, or video!
>
> • Dec 1, 16:00 PST –
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OSMF+Campaign+Office+Hours&iso=20201201T16&p1=388&ah=1
> • Dec 3, 8:00 PST –
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OSMF+Campaign+Office+Hours&iso=20201203T08&p1=388&ah=1
> • Dec 4, 16:00 PST –
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OSMF+Campaign+Office+Hours&iso=20201205T16&p1=388&ah=1
> • Dec 9, 8:00 PST –
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OSMF+Campaign+Office+Hours&iso=20201209T08&p1=388&ah=1
>
>
> Read my complete manifesto on the Wiki for more about why I think I’d make
> a good OSMF board member:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM20/Election_to_Board/Answers_and_manifestos/Michal_Migurski#Manifesto
>
>
> -mike.
>
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