[Osmf-talk] The use of Free and Open Source Software in the OpenStreetMap Foundation - FOSS Policy Committee report

[Felix Delattre]

Thanks Christoph,

On 1/29/21 5:59 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> Regarding your recommendations - most of them are for OSMF self hosting
> services, including for example using "OSMF-owned BigBlueButton" as a
> replacement for Mumble hosted by HOT or FOSSGIS.  Does that mean that
> the committee considers it preferrable for the OSMF to centralize
> services needed by the working groups in the OSMF instead of making use
> of federalized services provided by the local chapters?
I don't think the committee would go so far as to discourage services provided by local chapters - as long as they are an official local chapter. However, we should probably ask a few more questions about the criteria we have for hosting by local chapters? Is it OK for them to host their stuff on AWS, for example, and do we expect them to do regular updates? What happens if they stop offering the service at some point?

Please consider our recommendations as an idea to move forward - a direction for climbing that hill. We do not expect all of them to be implemented exactly as they are formulated. Our goal is to start a process, and we are happy to support it and have conversations about any of the tools and how they might be used.

> BTW during the board meeting someone suggested there are unavoidable
> non-free software and services.  I wanted to address that with:
>
> Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it,
> every ship is unsinkable until it sinks and
> every non-free software or service is unavoidable until someone avoids
> it.
>
> Innovation comes from people doing those things that are so far
> considered undoable.
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann
> https://www.imagico.de/
>
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