[OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

[Christian Rogel]

Blocking a very respected contributor without prior discussion is a major fail in the governance of the OSMF.
I assume that the thing was not really foreseen and a loose lead was put on the DWG group.

Everyone understands that the Board is overbooked and it could have be seen more easy granting a real trust
to DWG members.

But, it does not work so simple, if the alleged bad practice is fully approved by, not only responsible members of the local chapter, 
but by most of the French mailing list active contributors too (with a few non-French among them).

It is no use arguing on the behavior of pnorman user, except, maybe, the use of English toward a French contributor.
He was sure of what he did, according the rules he knew.

The fail is entirely in :
- Rules published without explanations
- Bringing explanations technically weak (can be easily reverted as the data are)

And, most of all
- no response on the governance of the OSMF, when one does not know from where and how was taken a potentially
   annoying decision to a whole community using its own sources and tools with a high sense of responsibility.

This will be a good subject for the next Annual general Meeting.


Christian Rogel
OSMF member since 2011
OSM contributor since 2008
OSM-France co-founder