[OSM-talk] OSM Foundation voting

[Erik Johansson]

On 6/23/06, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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!

A manifesto is a good idea.

>
> 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?


What I understood about the goal from the founding IRC meeting was:
1. Make a credible way to contribute money to the project
2. A way to pay people/pay for hardware and let people see where the
money is going.
3. Have a structure that can take responsibilty for the project, not
relaying on Steve.

Perhaps OSGeo can do this for us, but not I'm not certain.

-- 
/Erik