[Osmf-talk] Renew your OpenStreetMap Foundation membership to be eligible to vote

[Heather Leson]

Dears,

I know that this is a hard topic and it appears to be going on a tangent.
Respectfully and warmly, let's focus on membership renewals rather than
getting into this topic.

Thank you again to the Membership Committee for their effort to help us
have a safe and healthy election.

heather

Heather Leson
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Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson
Blog: textontechs.com


On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 11:04 AM Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 12/3/21 07:18, Johann Haag wrote:
> >> The politics in OpenStreetMap drove me into anonymity.
>
> By "politics" he means having to listen to what other community members
> ask of him - other community members he continually accuses of secretly
> working for the Austrian government or shady commercial enterprises
> trying to bring OSM down.
>
> By "anonymity" he means creating one sock puppet after another to evade
> the blocking of his account, and thereby wasting not only DWG's time but
> that of the whole Austrian OSM community.
>
> This man has been suspended (countless times) on the Austrian forum for
> (among other things) spewing off-topic conspiracy theories. He has been
> moderated on the talk-at mailing list. His OSM account has been
> temporarily suspended many times (before finally being suspended
> indefinitely) and a lot of time has gone into trying to convince him to
> respect others in the community to no avail. The various account blocks
> on https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/beautifulplacesMMXX/blocks are
> just a fragment of the whole but they give you an idea of what has
> happened, however the list of his accounts is long:
>
> geocodec
> wiki the map
> addresshistory org
> addresshistory*org
> beautifulplaces1 through beautifulplaces9
> beautifulplacesMMXX
> beautifulplacesMMXXI
> et_excluduntur
> couninf
> KarliG
> Florian6345
> Florian6345_2
> osmeulenspiegel
> fun737max
> Dragoner12
> 123fix
> 32d2123
> 77fix
> Sainihåns
> 5020_eulenspiegel
> DWG_contributors_invited_to_geography_conferences
> nicht_negreheb
> nicht_negreheb2
> Pflug24
> derunbestechliche
> @Österreich
> @aus_OpenStreetMap_und
> lsbkascdakhcbdsdavci
> predatortutti
> Kirchgasse
> 2History
> Wonder Women
> Superman Tirol
> DSalza
> AT6380
> trapp77
>
> Some of these are just throwaway accounts, others contain long profile
> rants about injustices suffered, or various attacks against individuals
> or groups. Some are even given a "persona", for example he used his
> "Wonder Women" account to tell another mapper "I won't let a man dictate
> anything to me!" when asked to provide good changeset comments.
>
> In one of the many interminable discussions about his mapping on
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/104910470, towards the end, he
> describes his strategy of actively suppressing productive mapping.
>
> In addition to various OSM-controlled media, this user also regularly
> publishes accusations against other Austrian OSM contributors and DWG
> members on Twitter and his personal blog.
>
> If anyone wants to form their own opinion, the above pointers should
> give you more than enough material.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
> --
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