[Osmf-talk] OSMF Strategic Planning 2023 - call for participation

Wed May 17 03:45:35 UTC 2023

I'm replying to Steve the founder, but this actually is directed to
everyone from old school. What could be done if the current OSMF-sponsored
channels become unusable even if you all make criticisms? Would you from
the old school create/join any alternative channels outside current
moderation, so the mappers which still believe in traditional values don't
feel ostracized if instead problems get fixed, the result is just block
complaints?

It is unlikely that DWG will tolerate bad data (so even if Cluster B part
on allow imports without criticisms for some organizations will not work),
and other parts of the project already are descentalized (and, by
meritocracy, are highly efficient, and their maintainers highly respected),
but for those who didn't noticed (because Cluster B have so many other
critics) *it also proposes to give more power to moderation: now it
explicitly wants to allow they're not even need to be elected/re-elected to
be on moderation role and explicitly try to extends powers to delete
content without any imposed limitation*.

To give an idea on how things seems to be going on lack of autonomy at the
bottom: organized editing (which DWG requires discussion with local
community) might starting to dominate the regional subforuns on
https://community.openstreetmap.org/ and local mappers might already trying
to make valid criticisms by fear of retaliation. With the Cluster B
proposal, this sadly likely would get far worse, because moderation might
be incited to delete criticisms. What if OSMF (or, actually, the somewhat
autonomous forum-governance) on the official forum re-activate all old
forums, put arbitrary moderators there, and the end result of a "more
global" forum became to support organized editing announcements?

So, please you all, consider some kind of alternative where others can talk
if things get worse. Places where we communicate with each other (and
already are not about OSMF, but OSM) globally are still relevant, that's
why merely avoiding using global forums to talk about is not ideal.

Att.
Rocha

On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 10:12 AM Steve Coast <steve at stevecoast.com> wrote:

> There seems to be a large cadence mismatch between the thousands of
> actions in the document and the last board meeting which was a (almost
> farcical) long list of reasons why board members hadn’t completed any of
> their actions.
>
> Maybe you could cut it down to 1 or 2 actions which have an a chance of
> being accomplished?
>
> Best
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On May 4, 2023, at 12:10 AM, Craig Allan <allan at iafrica.com> wrote:
>
> OSMF Members:
>
> There is a general circulation to OSM users asking for comments on the
> OSMF strategic Plan. Below you'll see the letter which has been sent out.
>
> We especially ask OSMF Members to please review the Strategic Plan.
>
> Part B, about Community Development is the first part we ask you to review.
>
> We'll send out invitations to review Part A, Part C and Part D at two week
> intervals.
>
> Please sent public responses to the OSM talk list or to the Discussion
> Board General Page.
>
> Private/Anonymous responses to strategy at osmfoundation.org.
>
> thanks
>
> const stratPlanTeam = ["Craig Allan","Sarah Hoffmann" , "Allan Mustard"];
>
> =====================================================
>
> *2023 Strategic Planning Cycle – Community Participation*
>
> The Board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation is revising its Strategic Plan,
> and invites all OSMF members and the OSM community to participate in this
> process.
>
> The plan is quite large, so we want to discuss it with you in four phases
> over the next two months. In each phase we focus on a different aspect of
> strategic development for the OSMF.
>
> The first phase will be “Cluster B: Community Development for OSM”. We are
> looking for your comments for only this section for the next two weeks.
>
> If you click through the link to “Cluster B: Community Development for OSM
> <https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Cluster_B>” you will find all the
> strategems in that cluster listed there.
>
> We would especially like your feedback on just four questions:
>
>    - What is missing from the plan? Or put differently, what should we
>    add to the plan?
>    - Are there any inconsistencies in the plan? Does the plan seem to be
>    well aligned with the OSMF Mission
>    <https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Mission_Statement> and the
>    direction of the OSM movement? Where are any problems?
>    - Which three strategems are most urgent? Which three must we do
>    really quickly?
>    - Which three strategems are very important? Which strategems are
>    critical for OpenStreetMap to succeed and grow?
>
> You may of course comment on anything else as well.
>
> If there is debate on this topic on any of the hundreds of social media
> sites that host OSM-related discussions, you could help us greatly if a
> member of that site or channel please prepare a summary of the comments and
> post it (in English) to the team. We cannot follow all of the discussions
> on all social media ourselves but we do care to hear your voices.
>
> We will mainly follow feedback in these two places:
>
>    - The OSM community general forum on Discourse at
>    https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/general/38/none
>    - The OSM community mailing list which you can reach by sending email
>    to talk at openstreetmap.org
>
> You can send private comments to be read only by the strategy team at
> strategy at osmfoundation.org or you can write individually to Board members.
>
> Due to our small team, we’d like comments to be in English. Machine
> translation from your language is fine. We have used
> https://translate.google.com and https://www.deepl.com/en/translator
> successfully but there are many others that work well.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Craig Allan, Sarah Hoffmann, Allan Mustard
>
>
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*Emerson Rocha*
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Transdisciplinary researcher at Etica.AI <https://etica.ai/>
Member of  The IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (IEEE
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