[OSM-talk] Support OSM communities and disaster response this holiday season (by 31 Dec)

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 14 December 2017, Tyler Radford wrote:
> [...] big-impact projects conceptualized by OSM community
> leaders.

I had hoped that HOT learned from the tasking manager problem a few 
months back that properly referring to OSM in a way that clarifies the 
difference between HOT and OSM is important.  The above indicates this 
hope was in vain.

By saying your microgrant projects are "conceptualized by OSM community 
leaders" you imply support and endorsement from the OSM community and 
draw legitimacy from this for what from my perspective seems to be a 
program with completely intransparent decision making processes.  You 
also imply the existence of a hierarchy in OSM of leaders and followers 
which is not an accurate representation of the reality of OSM either.

There is nothing wrong with supporting mapping projects with money, even 
if the criteria for that are unclear and subjective but you should not 
present this as if this financing is somehow integrated into and 
supervised by the OSM community.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/