[OSM-talk] STFU

[Christopher Woods]

On 02/02/2013 23:17, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> The OSMF board discussed this issue at their F2F meeting in Berlin 
> last November (meeting minutes: 
> http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_Minutes_2012-11-03).
>
> At the meeting we churned through several variations on the topic of 
> "who is the community, who is OSMF, who decides" etc.etc., and 
> essentially agreed that we would like to actively pursue the goal of 
> getting a greater proportion of the community to become OSMF members 
> so that we achieve a solid and representative democratic footing.
That's encouraging to hear. I haven't kept up with OSMF discussions for 
a while so it's encouraging to know it's at least on the agenda. Has any 
more progress been made since the November meeting?

> I quipped on the "glacial pace" in another email just now, and this is 
> one of the issues where things haven't progressed too fast; personally 
> I now think it is likely that any grand "membership drive" activities 
> will happen after this year's SOTM and not before. But this doesn't 
> mean that the goal is abandoned. 
If I have any knowledge or skills which OSMF would find useful, I'd be 
happy to contribute to these activities.

Cheers
Chris