[Osmf-talk] Operating reserves

[Simon Poole]

Am 15.12.2020 um 16:44 schrieb Craig Allan:
> ....
> THE FRAMEWORK
> Policy can be seen as a set of rules to implement our organisational 
> strategy. Strategy is informed by our mission (Section 3 of the AoA) 
> and the long term vision of the organisation (missing). So in any 
> organisation there will be likely be a hierarchy of plans, each more 
> detailed than its parent, ending eventually in a large list of 
> short-term tasks.

Sorry to jump on this in a bit of an off topic fashion, but I believe 
you are misunderstanding something there.

The "Objects" section in the AoA, that is section 3, is legally required 
and deliberately vague and unrestrained because of that. When we were 
discussing the 1st revision of the AoAs many years ago there was a 
longer discussion if we should change 3. to limit the scope to OSM, but 
for the above mentioned reasons we decided against it. It is however 
clear that is not a sensible starting point for any kind of policy, 
setting of goals or anything similar.

This has led to misunderstandings in the past, including a board member, 
paraphrased, coming to the conclusion that once there is enough open geo 
data we could let OSM die.

A far more sensible starting point is the 1st paragraph of 
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Mission_Statement

Simon


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