[OSM-talk] FOSM Elections - We need representatives that can represent and respect the diversity of OSM, maintain his dynamism
john whelan
jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 21:02:16 UTC 2015
Pierre I think you meant OpenStreetMap Foundation not FOSM, FOSM is a
fairly quiet fork of OSM whilst I think OpenStreetMap Foundation controls
the direction of OSM.
Cheerio John
On 1 December 2015 at 15:29, Pierre BĂ©land <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> I started to contribute to the OSM project with the Haiti Earthquake in
> jan. 2010. I was pleased last week to be in Port-au-Prince and contribute
> from the field, organizing training sessions.
>
> I am quite proud of what we have built collectively including the
> humanitarian responses like for Haiyan, Ebola and Nepal.
>
> But at the same time, many of you are aware of constant fights inside HOT
> to control the Board and HOT orientations. For the last three elections at
> HOT, it was not possible to discuss orientations, people from the majority
> of the Board have preferred to constantly make libellous statements against
> people that dont share their orientations, and in particular against the
> french community and projects to develp the OSM local communities in Africa.
>
> I am not on the FOSM discussion and cannot follow all the discussions.
> But let me say that from the experience of the last three years at HOT, I
> am not confident that providing more power to people closed to the HOT
> Board would contribute to a sane development of FOSM. Diversity is an
> important factor of success of OSM. Let's maintain this. Both HOT and FOSM
> can work independantly while collaborating for the success of OSM.
>
> regard
>
> Pierre
>
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