[Strategic] User feedback or What does the community want / miss / annoy

[Kai Krueger]

On 05/28/2011 12:03 PM, Kate Chapman wrote:
> The issue isn't what the barriers are to OSMF membership, but how we make
>> decisions in OSM.
>>
>>
>> And there's just some decisions that just have to be made by the OSMF. And
>> the Board is elected.
>>
>> Please justify the former statement. And the later: not by mapping
>> contributors generally.
> At some point I don't think everyone can just get a vote on each
> individual topic.  I think having a board in some ways is outsourcing
> decision making.  For example should all of OSM vote on if the
> foundation needs and accountant or not and then participate in the
> hiring process?  things would never get accomplished.
That is a nice example of how to distinguish who to ask.

Asking the whole community about the details of the OSMF accountant 
would indeed be counter productive, as the OSMF accountant does not 
(directly) affect the community, it only affects OSMF. For decissions 
that do however at its core effect the entire community, possibly rather 
profoundly, such as the license change (which not only effects the 
entire mapping community, but the entire user community ontop of it), 
the entire community should have the right to formally influence the 
decision and the issue should not just by solemnly decided by some small 
committee.

Kai



>> Regards,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
> Thanks,
>
> Kate
>
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