Dear all, I've enjoyed reading these emails this week, but have stayed out of the discussion. I just wanted to clarify some quick points:
1. I have not discussed my running for the OSMF Board with any other candidates 2. I have not discussed my running for the OSMF Board with the HOT group. I did sent an email to the listserv [0] but got no feedback other than the suggestion that I send it to the public HOT list after initially only sending it to the Members' list 3. I am not convinced that the answered questions uncover any HOT colluding 4. I view my HOT Membership as the recognition that I previously have made a commitment / contribution to HOT 5. I have no decision making powers within HOT - I am a member just as I am an OSMF Member 6. I am not a member of a secret society that controls HOT from the shadows. I don't think such a thing exists, although I would check that there have been no pizza vans parked outside the OSMF HQ for a suspiciously long time I look forward to the ongoing election process and am genuinely excited about the next OSMF Board term. Hopefully I can be a part of it! Thanks, Joseph [0] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2015-November/010561.html On 28 November 2015 at 10:32, Christoph Hormann <chris_horm...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2015, Tom Taylor wrote: > > [...] > > > > As a naive lurker on the lists, I took the announced candidacies at > > face value. That is, committed individuals decided individually to > > run for office. I agree that if all of them got elected, HOT would > > dominate the Board, but that is surely not a foregone conclusion. But > > do you really have evidence of a HOT conspiracy as opposed to a set > > of committed individuals? > > Within the general OSM community it is probably not a widespread > assumption that there is a cabal within HOT that pulls the strings > behind the curtains - although there are events where you can get this > idea - like when several people from HOT suddenly turn up in a > discussion all representing the same standpoint. But many mappers > notice that people engaged with HOT often share certain views and > approaches to things that are less common among other mappers. You can > see this to some extent in the answers to the questions for the OSMF > board candidates. > > So when people have reservations w.r.t. board candidates with a HOT > background this does not necessarily mean they have a problem with the > HOT project or its organization or its influence on the OSMF. It could > simply be they have reservations regarding the views shared by those > people which could well be the same views that also motivated them for > participating in HOT. > > > I note the references to Kate Chapman as representative of HOT. She > > is no longer executive director there. > > This probably deserves some clarification: In contrast to the OSMF > where everyone able to spend the membership fee can become member > membership of the HOT origanization is restricted, the current members > vote who can become a new member. See > > https://hotosm.org/voting-members > > Also in contrast to the OSMF activities of the HOT membership are not > generally public (feel free to correct me if i am wrong here). Also > HOT members have certain obligations of contributing to HOT activities > as outlined on > > https://hotosm.org/sites/default/files/HOT_Membership_Code.pdf > > According to the available information Kate is a member of HOT - so are > several candidates for the OSMF board: > > Mikel Maron > Joseph Reeves > Yantisa Akhadi > > Other candidates are active in HOT to some extent (like participating in > HOT mapping tasks) but are not members of the HOT organization. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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