[OSM-talk] Neutrality of SotM

[Blake Girardot]

To my eye all those tweets are just promoting SotM and and the OSM
Awards, none say vote for RH.

SotM and OSM should be promoting the awards and the nominees, that is
one of the the points of the awards, to increase exposure for people
doing great work.

It is kind of a bummer that there are so many great groups and people
doing important work with and through OSM that it has to get narrowed
down to five in each category and then only 1 winner, but as Ilya
said, that is just the nature of awards.

I have never been a "competition" person, I am one of those
everyone-deserves-a-trophy types of people :) And that is doubly true
for everyone in the OSM community since I know first hand the positive
impact OSM has around the world.

Cheers and thank you to everyone who was nominated, the finalists, the
eventual winners and everyone who contributes in some way to the OSM
community, you are all winners already!

Blake



On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Michael Reichert <nakaner at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could someone who is member of SotM Working Group explain me, why the
> Twitter account of SotM promotes voting for Ramani Huria at OSM Award?
> It is ok that SotM promotes OSM Award itself but it should not promote
> some candidates and others not.
>
> @sotm has retweeted following tweets:
> https://twitter.com/RamaniHuria/status/773841822309285888
>> 1/4. @openstreetmap launched #OSMAwards http://bit.ly/2cmPAZH  to be
>> presented at the @sotm conference in Brussels.
>
> https://twitter.com/RamaniHuria/status/773842098307080192
>> 2/4. And @RamaniHuria is nominated under the category "Greatness in
>> Mapping Award".
>
> https://twitter.com/RamaniHuria/status/773842401203019776
>> 3/4 We'd like to thank the @openstreetmap community for considering
>> @RamaniHuria for this award, it's a great honor to be nominated.
>
> https://twitter.com/RamaniHuria/status/773842658028642304
>> 4/4. Please consider voting, place your vote here
>> http://awards.osmz.ru/voting  and we hope to see you in Brussels at
>> @sotm 2016 conference
>
> Please remove this (re)tweets in order to keep the competition fair.
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael
>
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