Board/Minutes/2025-11

Date and time: Thursday 27 November at 13:00 UTC - Countdown.

Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/dor-2cd-qah-rim
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Participants

Officers and Board ^Historic
Board member biographies ^Historic
Minutes by Dorothea Kazazi.

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Administrative

Approval of previous minutes

2025-10-30

Circular Resolutions

2025/Res31 The board to approve signing the Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution ("Keep Android Open")

The board to approve signing the Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution ("Keep Android Open"). The letter and additional background information can be found at https://keepandroidopen.org/.
Approved on 2025-11-06 with 6 votes in favour: - Héctor Ochoa Ortiz - Laura Mugeha - Maurizio Napolitano - Brazil Singh - Craig Allan (OSMF supports free and open software. The Google security measures to control developers for the Android platform (as Apple does) will erect a barrier to distribution of free, open software on Android. We can't judge the full impact of their measures yet, but we can say that it appears to be a step backwards.) - Roland Olbricht (After reading both sides (Google and F-Droid as the main stakeholders), the authors of the letter have a point. There is no reason why developers that publish through F-Droid should sign off Google's terms and conditions. The basic reason against this would be that the Foundation has not a general political mandate. Given how difficult it is to have an OpenStreetMap based app on Android Auto, Google's terms and conditions well might impede OpenStreetMap based apps). 1 did not vote: Daniela Waltersdorfer.
Circular by Héctor Ochoa Ortiz.

2025/Res32 Approve active contributor membership application #2025072910000038

The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis.
Unanimously approved on 2025-11-06 with 7 votes in favour: - Roland Olbricht - Héctor Ochoa Ortiz - Daniela Waltersdorfer - Maurizio Napolitano - Brazil Singh - Craig Allan ("[username redacted]" is well known by the Board to be a significant and valued contributor to OSM, most recently in organising the [event redacted] in [country redacted]. I note however that the application itself is not fully suitable in that it references only self-written contributions. I'd much prefer to see some third party evidence) - Laura Mugeha (Voting in support based on mapping and non-mapping contributions; [name redacted] is an active mapper in [country redacted], supporting [organisation redacted] and the local OSM community and was also one of the lead organizers for [event redacted]).
Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group.

2025/Res33 Approve active contributor membership application #2025071610000302

The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis.
Approved on 2025-11-06 with 6 votes in favour: Roland Olbricht, Héctor Ochoa Ortiz, Daniela Waltersdorfer, Maurizio Napolitano, Craig Allan, Laura Mugeha. 1 abstained: Brazil Singh.
Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group.

2025/Res34 Approve active contributor membership application #2025102310000097

The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis.
Voting closes on 2025-11-09.
Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group.

2025/Res35 Approve active contributor membership application #2025100810000526

The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis.
Voting closes on 2025-11-15.
Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group.

2025/Res36 Approve active contributor membership application #2025110910000041

The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis.
Voting closes on 2025-11-16.
Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group.

2025/Res37 Approve active contributor membership application #2025110710000277

The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis.
Voting closes on 2025-11-16.
Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group.

2025/Res38 Approve active contributor membership application #2025110810000113

The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis.
Voting closes on 2025-11-16.
Application initially processed by the Membership Working Group.

Chairperson's report

Topic presented by Craig Allan.

Secretary's report

Topic presented by Dani Waltersdorfer.

Treasurer's report

Previous reports during monthly board meetings and general meetings

See the Treasurer's reports on the finances page.

Topic presented by Roland Olbricht.

Any other business

Guest comments or questions

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