[Osmf-talk] OSMF 2025

[Courtney]

To continue in my role as de facto fact checker for Steve C's posts, here
is the link to the first notice about the membership record discrepancies
(to my knowledge):


https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2024-August/008850.html

Please note this quote:  "As we became aware from the last election, some
members who are eligible to vote did not receive a ballot due to a bug in
our membership management software and PayPal payments."

Unlike Steve, I don't think anyone tried to "pretend it was totally fine"
However, it is a problem that was identified after the last election, as
having been a factor in the last election.

>From this post it is possible to navigate forward to follow-up posts that
both show the efforts that were made, a willingness to be transparent, and
a problem that not only was not resolved, but became more complex as time
went on.

C



On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 11:01 AM Steve Coast <steve at stevecoast.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Oct 20, 2024, at 8:43 AM, Robert Konieczny <robkoniec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
> I believe you summarized my argument unreliably.
>
> My main point was:
>
> *If there were problems, I would have reported it. I think I would have
> voted in the end. Anyone could have done that.*
>
> In normal democratic societies: If I were entitled to vote and had gone to
> the polls, and I wasn't on the list, I would have reported it to the
> election commission, shown my documents, and probably would have voted.
> Such things may happen in normal democratic societies
>
>
>
> Yessir, but that’s not what it seems happened here.
>
> Apparently the OSMF did this *knowingly* for *years* and it only came to
> light this year, and, after, tried to pretend it was totally fine.
>
> Best
>
> Steve
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