Re: [OSM-talk] what happens to an OSM account if the user dies

2015-04-08 Thread maning sambale
Thanks for all your condolences. She was actually one of our OSM contributor working in a catholic parish. We trained them to use OSM tools for the parish' disaster risk reduction ministry. As Mike N said, there is no risk of losing her important contributions when we did the license change. On

[OSM-talk] what happens to an OSM account if the user dies

2015-04-08 Thread maning sambale
Sad news that my friend and OSM contributor died from a vehicular accident. I'm curious, what happens to an OSM user account if this happens? -- cheers, maning -- Freedom is still the most radical idea of all -N.Branden blog:

Re: [OSM-talk] what happens to an OSM account if the user dies

2015-04-08 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:26 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Sad news that my friend and OSM contributor died from a vehicular accident. I'm curious, what happens to an OSM user account if this happens? Likely the account just sits with no activity. There's some risk it

Re: [OSM-talk] what happens to an OSM account if the user dies

2015-04-08 Thread Mike N
On 4/8/2015 7:26 AM, maning sambale wrote: Sad news that my friend and OSM contributor died from a vehicular accident. I'm curious, what happens to an OSM user account if this happens? Sorry to hear this.In the past with the license change, the contributions were summarily deleted at

Re: [OSM-talk] what happens to an OSM account if the user dies

2015-04-08 Thread Tom Hughes
On 08/04/15 12:26, maning sambale wrote: Sad news that my friend and OSM contributor died from a vehicular accident. I'm curious, what happens to an OSM user account if this happens? My condolences. The simple answer is nothing at all happens because OSM will be entirely unaware of what has

Re: [OSM-talk] what happens to an OSM account if the user dies

2015-04-08 Thread Badita Florin
This is a good question, condolences to your friend. I thnik wikipedia and other project haves a procedure when sad things like this happen. ᐧ On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 08/04/15 12:26, maning sambale wrote: Sad news that my friend and OSM