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

Fri Dec 11 05:39:38 UTC 2020

To be honest,
I don´t like Facebook.
Marek

From: Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 8:39 PM
To: Michal Migurski <mike at teczno.com>
Cc: OSMF Talk <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Osmf-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

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<mailto: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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