[Osmf-talk] Microgrants meetings

[Joost Schouppe]

Hi,

The Microgrants Committee did send a first proposal of which projects they
would like to work with, but the Board has asked them to rework that to
something that's more in line with the policy doc. The furtunate side
effect of that is that the two observers (Mike Collinson and Craig Allan)
will hopefully be able to attend the meetings on that topic. We also
suggested to the team to run them through their selection process.

It is unfortunate that the Microgrants Committee was working quicker than
the Board. I'm baffled by the volume of work the current Board is taking
on, so that's more a compliment to the team than an insult to the Board.
But I was present at all the meetings myself, the minutes are public, and
I'm sure more details about the process will be shared later on.

The whole observer idea came up during the process - I think that even if
its implementation is imperfect, it's better than the other likely outcome
of having no outsiders at all during the meeting.

Note that the only other candidate we declined submitted proposals
themselves, so in that case we just want to avoid conflicts of interest.

Best,
Joost

Op vr 29 mei 2020 23:27 schreef Christoph Hormann via osmf-talk <
osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org>:

>
> I have just been informed by Joost that i will not be allowed to listen
> in on the Microgrants committee meetings.  The decision for that is
> documented on
>
>
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2020-06#2020.2FRes28_Select_Microgrant_observers
>
> Joost has included a lengthy explanation for his personal reasoning
> behind the decision which i will not share here without his permission
> of course - he is free to post it here himself though.  What i can say
> is that it did not mention what kind of objective qualifications were
> the basis of the selection being made.
>
> Anyway - it does not ultimately matter much because the selection work
> of the Microgrants committee seems already finished without anyone
> being allowed to listen in on the meetings:
>
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Committees/Minutes
>
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