[Osmf-talk] Updated membership prerequisites plan

[Simon Poole]

Thar doesn't sound quite right, the current situation is

- unchanged since the time associate membership was introduced (2013), 
pay £15 and become either a regular or an associate member, no other 
requirements

- alternatively since a couple of years with a couple of different 
requirements, become a member through the membership fee waiver scheme

The board is now implementing restrictions of the former, not loosening 
the requirements for the later.

This goes back to the 2020 AGM and the vote on 
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/2020/Suggested_resolutions#Vote_3:_Work_on_membership_prerequisites

Simon


Am 07.06.2022 um 16:28 schrieb Brian M. Sperlongano:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 10:15 AM Mateusz Konieczny via osmf-talk 
> <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>     That seems to be extremely low and very close to "drop membership
>     requirements"
>
>     I would be strongly against this.
>
>
> Right now, anyone can join the OSMF for a payment of £15, and zero 
> days mapping.  So that membership requirement has already been, as you 
> describe, dropped.  It seems to me that reducing the mapping 
> requirement helps to close the accessibility gap.  Paying £15 is 
> trivial for many people in more affluent parts of the world.  So 
> essentially today, if you are economically advantaged, the barrier to 
> entry is low.  If paying £15 is cost-prohibitive, you have to map for 
> a significant period of time, which is more of a burden to those 
> people than paying £15 likely is to you or I. Reducing the mapping 
> requirement helps to lower the barrier for less economically 
> advantaged people to something that more closely approaches the 
> monetary barrier for more affluent folks.
>
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