[Osmf-talk] Board decision on initial composition of the Software Dispute Resolution Panel

[David Morais Ferreira]

> Regarding the people selected - we have
>
> * One academic from Luxembourg working at a University
> (Socioinformatics) - unclear if there is any professional connecton to
> OSM, software development experience, some related to OSM editors.
> Twitter user.  Primarily communicates in English in OSM.

Hello,
Just a small correction – While I used to work at a research institute
in Germany, I am now a full-time student again (currently finishing my
masters thesis).
Also, I have never had any professional connection to OpenStreetMap.

Kind regards,
David


On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 1:35 PM Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 31 January 2021, Allan Mustard wrote:
> > The OSMF Board of Directors voted Friday, January 29th, to appoint
> > the following five nominees to the Software Dispute Resolution Panel:
> >
> > *David Morais Ferreira* (nominated by DWG)
> > *Minh Nguyen* and *Wille Marcel* (nominated by LWG)
> > *Ilya Zverev* (nominated by MWG)
> > *Richard Fairhurst *(nominated by OWG)
>
> A bit of further background esp. for those who have not been in the
> meeting:
>
> The decision was made during a closed session of the meeting which was
> announced on the spot during the meeting (the first time since board
> meetings started to be public by default - all previous closed sessions
> were pre-announced on the agenda IIRC).
>
> The reason given for the closed session was that the subject was
> a 'personnel matter' (meaning i suppose that the board considers the
> panel to be 'personnel' of the OSMF).  If the details of the decision
> (including in particular if there were any conflicts of interest
> declared) will remain to be seen.
>
> Regarding the people selected - we have
>
> * One academic from Luxembourg working at a University
> (Socioinformatics) - unclear if there is any professional connecton to
> OSM, software development experience, some related to OSM editors.
> Twitter user.  Primarily communicates in English in OSM.
> * One software developer from the US working for Mapbox - one of the
> most active iD contributors more recently, top 11 of the non-bot
> contributors there according to github, probably higher more recently,
> OSMUS board member. Twitter user.  Primarily communicates in English in
> OSM.
> * One software developer from Brazil working for HOT - QA (osmcha) and
> organized mapping tools (primary developer HOT tasking-manager).
> Twitter user.  Primarily communicates in English in OSM.
> * One developer and blogger from Russia working for Lyft - job OSM
> related, editor development experience (primary developer Level0 and
> Imagery Offset Database, various JOSM plugins).  Former OSMF board
> member. Twitter user.  Communicates in English and Russian in OSM.
> * One entrepeneur and developer from the UK, running an OSM based
> cycling platform, primary developer of Potlatch, former OSMF board
> member (a long time ago). Twitter user.  Primarily communicates in
> English in OSM.
>
> Not selected were
>
> * One software developer from the US working for Facebook, no editor
> development experience AFAICS, former OSMUS board member, two time OSMF
> board candidate. Twitter user.  Primarily communicates in English in
> OSM.
> * One entrepeneur and developer from Germany, runs an OSM based
> business, some editor development experience, former FOSSGIS board
> member, former OSMF board member. No Twitter user.  Primarily
> communicates in English in OSM.
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann
> https://www.imagico.de/
>
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