[OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

Andy Allan gravitystorm at gmail.com
Mon Jul 5 14:10:11 BST 2010


On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>
> Oliver (skobbler) wrote:
>> How do you want to find the right licensing, funding and communication
>> approach (to avoid the word strategy) without having a strategic goal?
>
> By encouraging a welcoming, meritocratic environment in which talented
> people are able to do cool things. It's worked extraordinarily well so far.

Quite.

And maybe the question should be "What do we want a Foundation for?".
As far as I'm concerned, I don't want a foundation to be setting
strategic goals for the rest of us - I want it to be there to do the
supporting work that's needed like owning the domain names, raising
funds for servers, covering our collective backs where needs be. Or
generally acting like the guy on a building site who pours concrete in
the ground to make the, well, foundations of the project - not the
most glorious task, but you'll find the strategic goals and visionary
statements elsewhere.

That's not to say the Foundation shouldn't be planning ahead, but
there's a big difference between that and trying to come up with a
"vision". If we need a vision, a plan or anything like that (and
that's debatable anyway) then it's best for it to appear from the
bowels of the community, not be thrashed out at a OSMF board weekend
retreat.

Cheers,
Andy




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