[OSM-talk] OSM Foundation voting

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Fri Jun 23 11:34:00 BST 2006


Oliver White wrote:

> On Friday 23 June 2006 00:53, David Groom wrote:
> 
>>True, but I note no one has raised this either on this mailing list prior
>>to this pots, or on the Foundation discussion page on the wiki. I guess if
>>anyone had emailed Steve privately, then he will have told them.
> 
> According to the wiki, we've got (x - 12) days remaining to vote, so no hurry 
> to write down the voting and registration procedures...
> 
> Back on-topic, the question that interests some of us undecided voters:
> 
> What is the foundation going to do?  Does it just own the domain and buy hard 
> disks for the server? Or is it a political "free our geodata" thing that 
> hosts dinners for MPs? Will it be staffing a phone line for journalists to 
> call like the ORG? Will it be doing press releases and placing stories in the 
> news? Is the foundation intending to have a budget and purchase anything 
> significant with its own money (like satellite photos, bandwidth, or staff) 
> 
> Presumably we're just going to set-up *something*, and then decide what do do 
> with it later?  Or just share Steve's workload between 3 people and call it a 
> foundation?
> 
> One of Steve's old emails said (paraphrasing) "what harm can the committee do 
> when the foundation has no assets?".  Conversely, what good are we expecting 
> the foundation to do, that makes it important for people to join and vote?  
> 
> We're waiting for the manifesto!

Having watched the progress of http://www.osgeo.org/ over it's 
foundation I have to ask the question. Why can't OSM cooperate with 
OSGeo and just become another OS project with the high caliber projects 
that have already combined there?

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