[Osmf-talk] Draft resolution on membership prerequisites

[Emilie Laffray]

Agreed.

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:56 PM Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski <
me at komzpa.net> wrote:

> Some thoughts:
>
> "42 mapping days" will exclude:
>  - map consumers of all kinds, people who need to say "hey your
> tagging/servers/distribution/licensing is unusable".
>  - people from small places. My village I mapped in 5 days and generally
> I'm out of things to map there.
>  - people from low economy regions. Anyone who just does not have the
> luxury of 42 days of hobby in front of a computer.
>  - shy people who don't believe they are in position to prove themselves
> to someone.
>
> "42 mapping days" will amplify:
>  - people who can focus on one thing for 42 days and more and don't have
> other life.
>  - paid mappers of all kinds (the only real way to get in is to work
> somewhere where you have an assignment to contribute for 42+ days).
>  - current, unbalanced, membership base. (this won't apply on renewals to
> remove people, right?)
>
> "mapping or non-mapping" I can't really get what it means. On the coding
> side, anyone can generate a git history of any temporal shape quite quickly
> to fill in some github fork.  Requiring to commit to some specific repo
> will make the maintainter of it a gatekeeper of OSMF membership.
>
> I believe the proposal is ill-thought and will cause more damage than help
> in current form.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 7:29 PM Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> at the 2020 AGM, a 79% majority of the membership asked the board to
>> propose prerequisites for membership in the OSM Foundation which would
>> ensure that all applicants for membership have made a reasonable amount
>> of contributions to OSM (not necessarily through mapping).[1]
>>
>> We would like to ask for your feedback to a first draft of this proposal
>> which you can read below. It uses a definition for "reasonable amount of
>> contributions" that is comparable to the active contributor
>> membership[2], but has lower requirements: 42 days of contributions ever
>> instead of 42 days per year. Existing memberships would not be affected
>> by this change.
>>
>> The 2020 resolution called for a membership vote on this topic in 2021.
>> Unfortunately, the board didn't produce a proposal in time for the 2021
>> AGM and we would like to apologize for this delay. Our current plan is
>> to have the resolution ready for a general meeting on April 30, 2022.
>>
>>
>> # Potential text of the resolution
>>
>> Using its powers under §15 of the Articles of Association, the board of
>> directors shall reject applications for membership or associate
>> membership if the applicant has not demonstrably contributed to
>> OpenStreetMap on at least 42 days. The specific form of the
>> contributions (e.g. mapping vs. non-mapping) does not make a difference
>> for the fulfilment of these prerequisites. The board may delegate
>> verification and rejection of membership applications to a working group.
>>
>> ## Rationale:
>>
>> This change would more firmly establish the OSMF as an entity serving
>> the people and communities who create OpenStreetMap. By ensuring that
>> votes in Foundation elections and resolutions are cast by OpenStreetMap
>> contributors, it becomes more likely that the Foundation will continue
>> to support the the project well.
>>
>> The criteria take inspiration from the fee waiver (known as active
>> contributor membership) to allow using a similar implementation. Unlike
>> the fee waiver, eligibility will be evaluated as a one-time step during
>> application for membership, rather than annually. As such, members do
>> not have to fear losing their membership if their activity fluctuates or
>> declines. Existing memberships won't be affected.
>>
>> ## Considerations:
>>
>> This one-time check applies to all member applications including those
>> that pay the regular £15 membership fee.
>>
>>
>> # Footnotes
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2020/Suggested_resolutions#Vote_3:_Work_on_membership_prerequisites
>> [2] https://join.osmfoundation.org/active-contributor-membership/
>>
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