[Osmf-talk] Draft resolution on membership prerequisites

[Darafei "Komяpa" Praliaskouski]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 7:20 AM Steve Friedl <steve at unixwiz.net> wrote:

> > 42 days is an interesting number.
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> I’m on the Membership Working Group and can fill in some backstory on all
> this. I’m not speaking for MWG or the Board and not arguing for or against
> the recent proposal (I learned about it today via this list).
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> I don’t yet have an opinion yet on the proposal being floated, but it’s
> building on something that’s been in place for more than 18 months, not
> springing out of whole cloth, and I can’t recall a single pushback on the
> criteria.
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> Please discuss amongst yourselves 😊
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The problem is not the criteria itself but the way it's applied. In the fee
waiver program, it is applied to get a discount to people who are very
active contributors.

What it is used for now is to say that nobody but very active contributors
are welcome. That creates a secondary market for accounts with 42 active
days by the way. :)

There is another term limit in the documents already, which looks a lot
better suitable for the matter:

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Contributor_Terms :
An "active contributor" is defined as:
a natural person (whether using a single or multiple accounts) who has
edited the Project in any three calendar months from the last 12 months
(i.e. there is a demonstrated interest over time); and has maintained a
valid email address in their registration profile and responds to a request
to vote within 3 weeks.
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