[Osmf-talk] Diversity statement (Was: Next OSMF board meeting on Thursday 30 January 2020, at 17:00 UTC)

Tobias Knerr osm at tobias-knerr.de
Sat Feb 22 22:23:49 UTC 2020


Hi everyone,

thanks for your responses regarding the foundation's new Diversity
Statement so far! I hope to take them into account along with input from
the DISC when it comes to improving the statement.

With this email, I like to address just one particular aspect of the
feedback we've received, though: Some community members have expressed
concern that the new statement might somehow replace or supersede
existing core values of OSM, such as those described in the "Core
Values"¹ and "How We Map"² documents.

Not only was this not the board's intention, it came as a surprise to
many of us that our decision could be interpreted in that manner, as we
do not consider the Diversity Statement to be at odds with the contents
of the older documents. So to make our intentions clear, we have
recently passed a circular resolution³ to explicitly reaffirm our
support for said values.

Tobias

¹ https://wiki.osm.org/Foundation/Core_Values
² https://wiki.osm.org/How_We_Map
³
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2020-02#2020.2FRes12_Reaffirm_support_for_existing_value_statements



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