On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oliver (skobbler) wrote: >> How do you want to find the right licensing, funding and communication >> approach (to avoid the word strategy) without having a strategic goal? > > By encouraging a welcoming, meritocratic environment in which talented > people are able to do cool things. It's worked extraordinarily well so far.
Quite. And maybe the question should be "What do we want a Foundation for?". As far as I'm concerned, I don't want a foundation to be setting strategic goals for the rest of us - I want it to be there to do the supporting work that's needed like owning the domain names, raising funds for servers, covering our collective backs where needs be. Or generally acting like the guy on a building site who pours concrete in the ground to make the, well, foundations of the project - not the most glorious task, but you'll find the strategic goals and visionary statements elsewhere. That's not to say the Foundation shouldn't be planning ahead, but there's a big difference between that and trying to come up with a "vision". If we need a vision, a plan or anything like that (and that's debatable anyway) then it's best for it to appear from the bowels of the community, not be thrashed out at a OSMF board weekend retreat. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
