[Osmf-talk] Moving the OSMF to the EU?

Allan Mustard allan.mustard at osmfoundation.org
Thu Jul 1 13:36:40 UTC 2021


Short answer is "no". Location of servers is irrelevant to this issue 
and in any case OSMF-owned hardware is located in multiple countries.[1]

[1] https://hardware.openstreetmap.org/

On 7/1/2021 9:10 AM, Edward Bainton wrote:
> Reply to me alone bounced to list at St Niklaas's request:
>
> from: St Niklaas <st.niklaas at live.nl <mailto:st.niklaas at live.nl>>
> to: Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com <mailto:bainton.ete at gmail.com>>
> date: 1 Jul 2021, 13:51
> subject: Re: [Osmf-talk] Moving the OSMF to the EU?
>
>
> Hi all, is not it so that the OSM servers have been moved and grounded 
> in recent years to one country ?
>
> What’s up against to move the board to the same country and location 
> as well, keeping an eye on the international trading capabilities.
>
> Greetz
>
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 at 13:28, Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bainton.ete at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Red rag to a bull, Frederik ;-)
>
>     Here's my start, hosted on G**gle Drive (because that's all I know
>     how to do)
>     https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XKRL_TY_W-yztAZJdpzWaJN-9A1_NUC4unWweeOpUjo/edit?usp=sharing
>     <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XKRL_TY_W-yztAZJdpzWaJN-9A1_NUC4unWweeOpUjo/edit?usp=sharing>
>
>     Top row is what I think should be a serious consideration: a
>     transnational EU co-op, which can move between EU jurisdictions
>     with relative ease as conditions change.
>
>     Second row, by way of illustration, is the status quo.
>
>     Hope this helps; feedback welcome; consider it ODbL (if G**gle's
>     licence prevents that, please feel free to move it somewhere else.
>     Ideally not to the wiki, because editing tables comes with a
>     learning curve)
>
>     E
>
>
>
>     On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 at 10:27, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org
>     <mailto:frederik at remote.org>> wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         with all due respect, this discussion borders on the silly.
>
>         I'd say, whoever is willing to take the lead on this and spend
>         serious
>         time researching and investigating, gets to choose. Don't be
>         fooled,
>         this is a project that needs many man-months of volunteer
>         time. If all
>         you have offer is ideas about how those who do the work should
>         organise
>         themselves, maybe that's not the most pressing need right now.
>
>         Bye
>         Frederik
>
>         -- 
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