[Osmf-talk] For Community Consultation: OSMF Strategic Plan Version 2

[Steve Coast]

This plan is shorter than the prior version but not better.

* It fails to set a motivational goal, direction, or “North Star” for the community to follow.
  * Instead, it alludes to things generally being better in the future somehow (for example, section 3.4)
* The mechanism for things to get better is omitted
* Items have no budget, timeline or Directly Responsible Individual (DRI). It will be difficult, bordering naive, to approach any serious funding organization with a menu of unbudgeted, ungoverned tasks with no success criteria or timeline.

Mikel wrote on the forum[1] “... no strategic plan is designed to quicken the pulse.”

I beg to differ.

We didn’t start OSM, or achieve things, by building a committee-led plan and designing it to be as boring as possible.


I offer two alternates:

1. Allow any OSMF member to suggest their own SMART plans, and we vote on them over several rounds of improvements. This will remove the bland committee feel of this “plan”.

2. Just use my prior plan: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Steve/AlternativeStrategicPlan

Best

Steve

[1] - https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/seeking-comment-on-latest-revision-of-osmf-strategic-plan/102596/4


> On Aug 17, 2023, at 2:25 PM, Sarah Hoffmann via osmf-talk <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the OSM Foundation Board has been at work to revise the OSMF Strategic Plan,
> and we’re now sharing a rewritten version for feedback from OSMF members
> and the OSM community. You can find the latest version here:
> https://hackmd.io/A1cjUoK-RWmDsx_y14k2Pw
> 
> Please provide input in the Community Forum, or on the thread.
> 
> Highlights
> ==========
> 
> Previous rounds of feedback on earlier versions have been very helpful
> in shaping where we are now. You will see many changes in the document:
> 
> * The plan starts with a summary of where we are now and where we need to go.
> 
> * The plan retains the four clusters of work: technical infrastructure, 
>  community development, institutional development and financial governance.
> 
> * Within these clusters, there are a set of goals, some mention of major
>  actions, but more importantly indication of which part of OSMF is
>  responsible for developing and seeing through actions.
> 
> * Overall the plan is more concise and we think more understandable,
>  providing a solid basis for seeing through OSMF’s work.
> 
> 
> Next Steps
> ==========
> 
> We will review feedback on an ongoing basis for the next 3 weeks, followed
> by a discussion at the Board’s September mid-month chat. We will then make
> additional revisions based on feedback, with the ambition to adopt the plan
> at the September Board meeting on the 21st.
> 
> We look forward to hearing from you, and thanks to all who have participated
> in this process.
> 
> Sarah
> (for the OSMF board)
> 
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