[Osmf-talk] 2021 Board election - Submission of self-nominations has closed

[Allan Mustard]

Hmm. On the current board, there are no Anglos, two Americans, and four 
Europeans. I don't see Anglo-American cultural dominance on the OSMF 
Board. The 2021 survey was conducted in 18 languages. I'm told that was 
the largest array of languages ever used in an OSMF survey. Oh, and by 
the way, the survey showed that the single largest country represented 
in the community consists of Germans, and the largest supranational 
contingent was of Europeans. The data do not support your assertions on 
these scores.

As for transparency, I doubt that the Board could ever meet unrealistic 
expectations of total transparency. There will always be a need for 
closed-door meetings. That said, OSMF's transparency is in fact 
increasing, not decreasing, what with publication of notes of closed 
meetings (at which decisions are not made), strengthening of the 
conflict of interest rules, and an AoA change allowing inclusion of 
non-Board members on committees for managing fund-raising, the budget, 
and personnel. These changes grant greater visibility into the workings 
of the Board and OSMF than before. The Engineering Working Group has 
been revitalized, and a Software Dispute Resolution Panel created--with 
its members nominated by the volunteer working groups--taking the Board 
out of the business of resolving disputes over iD presets. Again, the 
data do not support your assertions on these scores.

You assert that external special interests are influencing OSMF actions 
and decisions. Please provide examples. I cannot think of any.

cheers,
apm

On 10/25/2021 5:21 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
> The problem with that suggestion is that it would - if at all - only
> superficially pave over the much deeper underlying structural problems
> (like the increasing English language and Anglo-American cultural
> dominance, the decreasing transparency of board work and the increasing
> influence of external special interests on OSMF actions and decisions
> just to mention a few key points).
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