Board/Minutes/2021-02-S2S/Taking stock of OSM today
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Notes by participants. Might be enriched.
Participants
Board members
- Allan Mustard
- Eugene Alvin Villar
- Guillaume Rischard
- Jean-Marc Liotier
- Mikel Maron
- Rory McCann
- Tobias Knerr
Guests
- Allen Gunn (facilitator)
- Dorothea Kazazi (administrative assistant)
Notes
What is trending better, working better or resolved over last 4 months?
- fund-raising
- recognition of need to protect our communication spaces (Mikel)
- taking temperature of broad community in survey (Mikel)
- discussion on conduct
- adding local chapters
- OSM keeps growing & hasn't fallen apart (Rory)
- Continued steady growth of Local Chapters (LCs) (Rory)
- Licensing Working Group (LWG) (through Dermot - LWG member)
- Engagement with local chapters
- Discussion with Humanitarian OSM Team (HOT)
- better funding for core infrastructure
- AI assisted mapping isn't so bad after all
- Dorothea's new (contract)
- Organized mapping is more transparent
What has remained the same/unchanged? (good)
- Hiring of Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SSRE) (not stuck, movement soon)
- Collegiality of the Board
- Lack of communication with corporate actors (Rory)
What has remained the same/unchanged? (bad)
- offensive behavior in the talk lists
- attribution
- financial planning and budgeting
- relationship with HOT
- understanding of relationships among OSM entities (OSMF, Local Chapters, HOT, companies) (Mikel)
- bolstering weak Working Groups (WGs)
- Still unclear relationship between working groups and Board (Data Working Group (DWG), LWG) (Eugene)
- API, website, community channels, other central technical infrastructure (Tobias)
- No movement on Engineering Working Group (EWG) (Mikel)
- Moving (parts of) the OSMF to the EU (Rory)
- Center of gravity still European
- Main website is pretty much the same (Eugene)
What is trending less well, working less well or less resolved over last 4 months?
- independent volunteer participation in working groups and similar groups
- Motivation of people involved in volunteering for OSM (e.g. editor authors)
- Some software is still stagnant (osm-website) (Rory)
- ditto ^^ (Mikel)
- Attribution Guidelines isn't resolved (Rory)
Anything else
- Presence of large corporate actors