[Osmf-talk] Hostile takeover of the OpenStreetMap Foundation?

[Simon Poole]

Rolands mail was clearly written with the concern that we would get 
tactical last minute nominations as we had last year and he was warning 
against that leading to a scenario in which candidates that employed 
such tactics could essentially be elected by default if there were not 
enough alternative nominations.

He didn't refer to the nationality of the candidates or of the companies 
employing them at all, just to the fact that they had previously tried 
above mentioned tactic.

More general remark: the OSMF has over the years always had significant 
US influence if not dominance, way more than would be warranted by 
representation on any kind of metric except for money. Moaning about 
being treated badly is in that context at best disingenuous, if not 
deliberately misleading.

Simon

PS: it is well known that I don't believe it is good form for board 
members to be involved in the specifics of election candidates and this 
shows why.


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