Before looking at the content, I had an immediate reaction, which I'll provide anyway:
The biggest issue in OSM is misuse of the data by not complying with the license terms, almost always by big companies. Often these same companies have employees that participate, and sometimes are sponsors. There does not seem to be an effective process to resolve the license violations. This is the single most important problem for the OSM community over the long term. In looking at what you actually asked us to look at, it struck me as odd to propose a "Women's mobile mapping app". I think this gender bifurcation of software is fundamentally a bad idea. If you had said "identify gender bias in existing software and seek to remove it", that would be great. I can certainly believe that there are some POI types or other db objects, such that interest in mapping them has a correlation with gender. However I'm not trained as a social scientist and I haven't seen any data on the table. Note that I said correlation, as in a different fraction of women vs men would be interested. That doesn't mean that one can say that all women or all men are or are not interested in some particular thing; that statement sounds profoundly sexist and offensive. So I'm really not sure what to make of this. If something like Streetcomplete should have a quest that some people care about but hasn't been added because those people are currently under-represented, I would expect it to be added if someone spoke up. And similarly for JOSM, Vespucci, etc. - this is presumably about presets for object types, rather than about methods for editing ways and relations. I note that there was no apparent hyperlink, so it was not possible to read about what this actually is. A quick internet search led me only to a crowdsourced database of neighborhood safety assesments, with a different name. It seems odd to propose funding something that doesn't have public information about what it is. In general, I don't think OSMF should fund things unless they are openly documented in public and there has been an opportunity for the community to evaluate and discuss. And then, things being funded should be 100% open source with community governance. (Funding maintenance of community-governance 100%-open-source software that is know to be in wide use seems fine, as that wide use is an endorsement by the community.) With respect to civility and courtesy in interactions, I think that's very important, for everyone. And I think that's the real issue. Greg _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
