[OSM-talk] The benefits of cross-linking OSM and Wikidata

[Kathleen Lu]

Right. Since the definition of "active contributor" includes "has
maintained a valid email address in their registration profile and responds
to a request to vote within 3 weeks", then people who do not vote do not
count as active.
A 2/3 majority voting in favor is not an easy threshold by any means, but I
don't think it would be any more difficult for OSMF to *conduct* the vote
than it is to conduct the board election.


On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:01 AM Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2020-03-05 15:39, Rory McCann wrote:
> > On 05/03/2020 15:25, Sören Reinecke via talk wrote:
> >> couldn't we do a vote about that? Would it be possible for the OSMF to
> >> maintain and coordinate such a voting.
> >
> > Yes, we _could_.
> >
> > It would require a 2/3 majority of “active [OSM] contributors”,
>
> "and responds to a request to vote within 3 weeks"
>
> > is (intentionally) a large number (about 250,000 at the time of
> > writing).
>
> Which will limit that number of 250.000 substantially, and will in fact
> limit that number to the number of votes you receive.
> If 4 people respond and 3 vote in favor, than that counts as a 2/3
> majority as put forward in item 3 of the license.
>
> Regards,
> Maarten
>
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