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/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
