[OSM-talk] HOT using the OpenStreetMap-Foundation trademark

[Tyler Radford]

Hi Martin, how are you?

This is just to confirm from our side that we're indeed working to clarify
our usage of the OpenStreetMap mark together with OSMF. This will be
ongoing in the coming weeks/months and we are happy to share updates once
we have some. As part of the process, we'll review our wiki entry, website,
etc to get the balance right: both promoting the wider OpenStreetMap
project and clarifying our role in it.

Warm regards
Tyler

*Tyler Radford*
Executive Director
tyler.radford at hotosm.org
@TylerSRadford

*Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team*
*Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development*
web <http://hotosm.org/> | twitter <https://twitter.com/hotosm> | facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/hotosm> | donate <https://hotosm.org/donate>




On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 8:03 AM Roland Olbricht <roland.olbricht at gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > it has been a while that HOT and the OpenStreetMap-Foundation are
> > discussing about an agreement which would allow HOT (in case you do not
> > know, it is a completely different organization, unrelated to the OSMF),
> > to use the OpenStreetMap-Foundation registered marks.
> >
> > There is some documentation in the minutes, unfortunately it often does
> > not cover what was actually discussed, just that something was
> > discussed, that the discussion was not minuted on request, that it was
> > discussed in the non-public part, and similar.
>
> To stop any conspiracy theory before it spreads. I was on that chat,
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2022-02-10
> and I do not remember that is was a topic. This means that is most
> likely was a reminder that we still have it on the to-do-list or so.
>
> It can backfire if done wrong, it is not urgent, and it is relatively
> unimportant. So it is low priority.
>
> I'm unhappy that I have not written much about my board activity so far.
> There are things I'm unhappy with although not due to the community or
> the board, more with general bureaucracy, and one should not write such
> things in a hurry, accidentally insulting people. HOT is not on that list.
>
> Closed sessions of the board have almost only the purpose to protect
> personal privacy. There is no privacy involved here. It has been on the
> mid-board chat because a simple notification should not stay dormant for
> another two weeks.
>
> This is a personal opinion, not an agreed position from the board.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roland
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20220506/5d924255/attachment.htm>