[OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

[Robin Paulson]

On 2013-02-05 06:56, Simon Poole wrote:
> participated it has always struck me how little alignment of goals 
> there
> is in  the community as a whole (I'm not saying it is surprising, 
> just
> that is so). Outside the very generic mission that OSM  "creates and
> distributes free geographic data for the world" it is difficult to 
> find
> common ground. So not only to we tend to disagree on how to get to 
> our
> goal (the strategy) there are a number of different views on what 
> those
> goals actually are (outside of hand wavy very generic statements).
>
> The exercise towards the end of the SWG to define core values for the
> project could be seen as an attempt to document some aspects of what
> common ground there is, however it never matured (IMHO) to a level 
> that
> the result could be published as a formal document and currently 
> molders
> well hidden on the foundation web site at
> ttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Core_Values
>
> I'm fairly sure that prior to any strategic exercise we need to take 
> a
> step back and have a look at what this project wants to achieve in 
> the end.

who is "we"? and why do you or anyone else get to declare what "we" 
need to do? isn't that a personal decision? you're right, those who map 
do have different aims, methods, approaches, understandings, etc. why 
does that need to change? and how are you or anyone else going to form 
those 30,000 into one? through what authority, through what power?

-- 
robin

http://universitywithoutconditions.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University