[OSM-talk] Defining critical mass...

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Wed Jul 14 11:59:06 BST 2010


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:18 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 July 2010 19:08, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> See also http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes if
>> you are interested in seeing what's been involved in the LWG so far.
>
> How about defining some specific points about what an acceptable loss
> of data will be, possibly on a per region basis and if not obtained
> what the outcome will be.

What do you suggest would be acceptable / unacceptable?

> Allow contributors to vote before the change over occurs, not just if
> they agree to license their data under ODBL or not...

Interesting idea.  How should this work?  Something like?:

... steps leading to today
- users indicate ODbL acceptance or not
- summarize user replies: x replies, y accept.
- somebody processes all the results to show data effect
- publish those results
- users vote to proceed with license upgrade (or not) based on
published results.
- upgrade license (or not) based on user vote

Or more simply.  Ask users if they are willing to proceed.  Calculate
and show users the results.  Then ask users if that is good enough to
make it "official".

Is this what you imagine?  Is this acceptable to those reading this?
What are the details of the "- users vote..." step?  Let's talk more
about this.




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