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

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 14:48 2022-11-22, Pierre Béland đã viết:
> Minh,
>
> nowadays translators tools give us a good understanding of content of 
> texts from other languages. I suggest that you re-read Roland 
> discussion which is simply about the Risk of Hostile takeover of the 
> OpenStreetMap Foundation with 4 seats open.
>
> Yes there are important communities in France, Germany, USA, etc with 
> different visions and strategies. And there are the corporate partners 
> with their own strategies. You should also re-read imagico blog. Let's 
> not be be naive and simply look at the nationality of candidates and 
> view them as simple local craft mappers.
>
> Election vote is starting relatively soon and meanwhile, I would like 
> to see Candidates come and discuss about this subject and other 
> aspects they think important to talk about.

It’s not that I didn’t read Roland’s post with the help of machine 
translation, or that I didn’t read his writing last year in English that 
I’m now seeing in a different light. I wasn’t trying to downplay this 
risk of a takeover that everyone’s talking about, though I don’t share 
the sense of panic and Roland’s immediate fears have not borne out.

What I am saying is that board members have a responsibility to be 
circumspect in their election-related communications and it was fair for 
Brian to request clarification from Roland. If you are asking me to 
speculate on why Roland’s post was “in Deutsch außerhalb der 
automatische Übersetzung”, then a charitable reading might be that he 
did not want to egg on the very people he mentioned. But he did not only 
mention those individuals; he also drew a distinction between Germans 
and others who are members of this organization – not a very flattering 
one, as Christoph points out. If there is no broader point to what he 
wrote, then so be it, but I would like to hear that from Roland himself 
rather than speculate further.

-- 
Minh Nguyen<mxn at 1ec5.org>
Jabber:mxn at 1ec5.org; Blog:http://notes.1ec5.org/
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