[Osmf-talk] call for volunteers to serve on the Software Dispute Resolution Panel

[Allan Mustard]

Since this is new, we have no data to predict.  I suspect it will not be
onerous.  Maybe a couple of hours per month, on average.

apm

On 1/6/2021 12:37 PM, Mateusz Konieczny via osmf-talk wrote:
> What kind of time investment is required from people volunteering for
> that?
>
> 1h/month? 1h/day?
>
>
> Jan 6, 2021, 15:41 by allan.mustard at osmfoundation.org:
>
>     The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directors ("Board") wishes
>     to proceed with creation of a Software Dispute Resolution Panel
>     ("Panel") made up of volunteer Foundation members who will resolve
>     software disputes around OpenStreetMap-focused software, whose
>     owners chose this arbitration. For now, only the iD editor is
>     concerned, but others might eventually opt in.
>
>     In deference to concerns expressed by some community members that
>     the Board itself would seek to control the outcomes of dispute
>     resolution or otherwise meddle with the Panel, and considering the
>     offer of the Data Working Group to assume responsibility for
>     resolving software disputes, the Board has decided to solicit
>     volunteers from the Foundation membership for the Panel, but asks
>     that they be nominated by one of the OSM community's Working
>     Groups. If more than five nominees are presented to the Board, the
>     Board will select five from among them. The nominees may be
>     members of a Working Group but that is not a requirement for
>     service on the Panel. Working Groups are encouraged to recruit
>     volunteers for the Panel.
>
>     If you are willing to assist in resolving software disputes please
>     contact one of the working groups and submit your name for
>     nomination to the Panel. The working group will vet your candidacy
>     and if it is found suitable will forward it to the Board. Thank
>     you for your service to OSM.
>
>     Thank you and best regards,
>     apm
>
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software_dispute_resolution_panel
>     <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software_dispute_resolution_panel>
>     https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2020-08#Dispute_resolution_panel_proposal
>     <https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2020-08#Dispute_resolution_panel_proposal>
>     https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2020-August/085258.html
>     <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2020-August/085258.html>
>     https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/8/8a/20200720_digest_responses_iD_proposal.odt
>     <https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/8/8a/20200720_digest_responses_iD_proposal.odt>
>
>
>     -------
>     /Allan Mustard, Chairperson/
>     /Board of Directors/
>     /OpenStreetMap Foundation/
>
>
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