[OSM-talk] Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team seeks Executive Director

[Heather Leson]

Good morning or good evening depending your timezone,

HOT is seeking an Executive Director. Applications are open until July 30,
2015. Would you be able to share this posting within your networks? We've
been posting to a number of free boards within the humanitarian and open
source spaces. It is also on FOSSjobs.

http://hotosm.org/updates/2015-07-02_be_the_executive_director_of_humanitarian_openstreetmap_team


Thank you kindly,

Heather

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Re: [OSM-talk] A message to our friends at HOT, Peace Corps etc. about Changeset Comments

[Heather Leson]

Good day fellow OSMers,

I have read this thread with great interest. There are some productive
solutions such as training and technical changes. Thank you. Every day
someone joins OpenStreetMap. Every day someone tinkers and tries to learn.
This is a good thing. In open communities, there is a varied learning arch
from beginner to expert. And, in most open communities, there are a few
moments when the growth from early adopters changes to include a wider,
diverse and global (multi-lingual) community. This is also a good thing.

I am concerned that these discussions close the door for new community
members or quieter community members or people of different skills or
people with lower digital literary skills. To me we are responsible to be
good leaders - welcome new people and be thankful that the community and
OSM improves. Yes, there are processes to change. But the one thing that I
really want to make very clear is that some of the comments are very
elitist and potential limit OSM. I also think that the tone of some of the
notes does not bode well for a healthy space for all.

We are collectively so much better than this potential road. We need to be
kinder.

Thank you,

Heather
OSM Member
HOT, Board of Directors


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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Simon Poole  wrote:

>
> Am 19.11.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Blake Girardot:
> > 
> > It is a ridiculous statement on its face; obviously HOT does not
> > succeed if OSM does not succeed.
>
> I think we fully agree and if you recheck you will see that I said
> essentially the same.
>
> >
> > As to the original issue Ramm raised:
> >
> > Most HOT folks who commented agreed the example changeset comments,
> > while useful, could benefit from improvement (as could the vast
> > majority changeset comments in OSM). Mikel has already opened an issue
> > in github to improve them and the issue has already been brought to
> > the people who manage HOT OSM Tasking Manager projects, how is that
> > not working with and being responsive to the larger OSM community?
>
> Again if you go back you will see that I couldn't quite believe that a
> shism was really being declared because it doesn't make any sense.
>
> On the other hand you can't deny that HOT is in some ways self defeating
> since it isolates lots of people from the whole of OSM and the nitty
> grity parts. Intentionally naturally, but it doesn't necessarily
> actually help the humanitarian sectors understanding of what OSM is and
> how it works.
>
> >
> > I think HOT's history demonstrates an eagerness (and outright need) to
> > work with the OSM community at every opportunity (not mistake free of
> > course).  But I can also personally point to at least 1 example where
> > HOT has reached out to OSMF and the License WG and literally been
> > ignored after repeated attempts to even discuss an issue.
>
> I would be interested in a reference to that. We get a large number of
> enquiries, ~ 200 this year to date, and occasionally stuff gets pushed
> back, particularly if there is no good answer (naturally you would get
> an answer pointing that out).
>
> Simon
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Re: [OSM-talk] Community Conference

[Heather Leson]

Hi

Some big dream community stuff could  be great at SOTM and for OSM. Pardon
me if this is done already. Ive attended some workshops & birds of a
feather events on this at SOTM -US on this topic plus been reading for a
few years and attending local events when I can)

Some ideas

Stages

BEFORE, Collect Data
do a digital network map of all the interests of mappers (common tags) and
location (eg. Helipads and railways; Togo and Japan) Martin Dittus did this
for missing maps, Mark Graham just did this for wikipedia.

Have a strong think on how OSM can grow. Look at how communities grow in
open source allies : mozilla, ubuntu, wikipedia. Compare the OSM community
needs on how they wish to grow. Take a look at global community thinking
http://www.communityroundtable.com/research/community-maturity-model/

During

Host an interactive first roadmap session on how to keep organically
growing OSM while being super realistic on what are some of the
gaps/hurdles/opportunity. Plan working group activities to shine globally
tied to and supporting the local OSMer with some resources and love (very
lightweight)
(See aspirationtech.org for details on how to.)

After
Keep working on this digitally to get more people involved and improve it.
Checkin at SOTM and online to see if this works for you.

One thing that I will say is that I love this community's efforts and
volunteer within HOT. I see these small things as potential productive next
steps. OSM has natural leaders but no formal program to support their
growth like Ubuntu or Mozilla. Ive attended the Community Leadership Summit
at OSCON and met many leaders from Mongo to Red Hat to Libre Office. This
is their top priority to support participation,learning, growth and
diversity. My time has been very hard because my skills that are voluntary
gifted are sometimes viewed as less important or deemed as not valuable
enough to be a leader. This is very disheartening because open source
thrives when communities are strong with many diverse skilled people and
plans to thank/mentor people. Yes, OSM can be a Starfish and Spider (yess
this book) but a little plan to go with organic grow might help many thrive.

Thanks for reading

Heather

On 2 Dec 2015 16:26, "Steve Coast"  wrote:
>
> I’ve heard from a few people thinking of organizing an OpenStreetMap
conference focused on the community, very different from what SOTM has
become.
>
> I’m curious what people here think of the idea?
>
> Best
>
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Re: [OSM-talk] Global high-resolution model of relief

[Heather Leson]

Wow, Thanks Gonzalo and ClusterGIS!

Heather
On 16 Mar 2016 21:07, "clustergis"  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> probably you know that recently NASA has released all SRTM data of
> elevation with a resolution of 30m.
>
> In the ClusterGIS association (http://clustergis.org) we have made a
> global model of relief of high-resolution (15m/px), in geotiff format.
>
> Data can be downloaded from the page http://theearthsrelief.com with CC
> BY license.
>
> We want to offer these data to OpenStreetMap community, especially to the
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).
>
> We thought they are a good complement to OSM data in many parts of the
> world.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> GonZaLo López
> ClusterGIS Team
> @clustergis
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Re: [OSM-talk] What3words

[Heather Leson]

Well, slightly off-topic but I am often perplexed by the vitriol in OSM. I
even shudder to post this statement because the environment has shown
itself to be hard.

Maybe we can have conversations at SOTM about how to turn this tide in a
collaborative way.


Heather

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On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson 
wrote:

> I don't know if they are using the English version in Mongolia but I doubt
> it. You can already swap to 8 other languages on their website (top right
> option).
>
> I did discuss Icelandic with Mapillary and they looked into available word
> sets and concluded that it was more than sufficient to make Iceland itself
> work in an Icelandic w3w implementation.
>
> The circle-jerk is strong here about w3w, they have a human readable
> solution for GPS-coordinates (which OPL isn't sadly), they've pledged to
> offer the source code if their business goes belly-up and seem to doing a
> lot of good things. I'm slightly perplexed at the extent of vitriol they
> suffer here.
>
> --JBJ
>
> Þann 12.07.2016 08:11, Janko Mihelić reit:
>
>> So they are using the english version? What good does that do to the
>> local people? It would be easier to learn the GPS coordinates.
>>
>> Janko
>>
>> uto, 12. srp 2016. u 09:47 Steve Doerr 
>> napisao je:
>>
>> On 12/07/2016 00:23, Dave F wrote:
>>>
>>> This system [...] doesn't work in the real world.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's apparently used in Mongolia as of this month. So the proof of
>>> the
>>> pudding . . .
>>>
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[OSM-talk] Fwd: [HOT] MapSwipe Launched!

[Heather Leson]

Hi!

MapSwipe is launched today.  I like to think of it as a pre-processing
imagery tool to curate a cleaner dataset for mappers. Imagine less blank,
blurry images, or "nothing to map" tiles. This tool aims to have people
microtask the tiles in a game way. We will start with Missing Maps projects
and then we hope to make it more available as we iterate. (the code is on
github)

http://mapswipe.org/


Mapswipe is an MSF sponsored mobile app supporting projects to go on
OpenStreetMap.

More details below.

Heather


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-- Forwarded message --
From: Pete Masters 
Date: Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:49 PM
Subject: [HOT] MapSwipe Launched!
To: "h...@openstreetmap.org" 


Hi all, as promised, MapSwipe is now available on App Store, Play Store and
via http://mapswipe.org/

There's a blog post on it, here:
http://www.missingmaps.org/blog/2016/07/14/mapswipe/

Would love it if you'd give it a go and, assuming you like it (!), give us
a hand sharing it

Lot's of stuff to come, but the app is ready for mapping. At the moment,
these are just Missing Maps projects, but once we are on our feet, we hope
to open it right up. Data exporter also on its way, soon!

If you have any problems, encounter bugs or have comments, please feel free
to let us know at http://bit.ly/MapSwipeFBack We expect some bugs, of
course, and your help pointing them out to us would be much appreciated...


Cheers,

Pete

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Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF Board Elections

[Heather Leson]

Thank you.

I posted a full note here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Heather%20Leson/diary/42926


Heather

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On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Many congratulations to the Board.
>
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> Best wishes,
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> Suchith
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> *Sent:* 09 December 2017 16:23
> *To:* Talk Openstreetmap; Paul Norman; Heather Leson; Ilya Zverev
> *Subject:* [OSM-talk] OSMF Board Elections
>
> Congratulations Paul Norman and Heather Leson to being elected to serve on
> the OSMF Board
>
> Thank you Ilya Zverev for serving on the Board.
>
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[OSM-talk] State of Open Data Report - global consultation

[Heather Leson]

Hello.

The State of Open Data team is seeking input by sector and region about
activities related to open data.  Please help share examples and research
to represent OSM.

The project:
http://www.stateofopendata.od4d.net/get-involved
Some of the sectors include - agriculture, urban development, international
aid, data infrastructure

A blog post:
https://medium.com/@stateofopendata/the-state-of-open-data-join-the-investigation-b223edef2a8a

Thanks!


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[OSM-talk] OSM and Gender

[Heather Leson]

Hello,

We are hosting an online discussion about Gender and OSM. See details in my
diary note as well as the doodle for scheduling. Add your availability by
Thursday of this week so that we can announce the times.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Heather%20Leson/diary/43345

We will host a few conversations on this topic. This is the first scheduled
one. It will be hosted on mumble.

Thanks

Heather Leson and Kate Chapman

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[OSM-talk] Report back - OSM and Gender discussion

[Heather Leson]

Thanks to everyone who participated in the recent OSM and Gender dialogue.

Here is our diary post summary -
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Heather%20Leson/diary/43458

Also, Happy International Women's Day. Thank you to all the women who map
and lead in OSM. You inspire me everyday.

Heather

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[OSM-talk] Open Gender Monologues at SOTM

[Heather Leson]

Hi

At State of the Map Milan, we are hosting an Open Gender Monologue
discussion. It is an open forum to talk about experiences in OSM. Our goal
is to build a space for conversation and for learning from each other.

Here are more details on how to participate:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Heather%20Leson/diary/44407

We'd really appreciate it if you could share this link with your OSM
networks.

Thank you,


Heather and Kate



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Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Draft Terms of use for the OSM website, API and other services

[Heather Leson]

Dear all,

how about a brief companion FAQ? I am happy to help with this (as mentioned
in Milan)

Michael, would you like to collaborate on this with us?

heather

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On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Simon Poole  wrote:

>
>
> Am 08.08.2018 um 19:14 schrieb Michael Reichert:
> > ..
> > I read the draft and I think that is far too long. It does not invited
> > to be read by the users. This can lead to following issues:
> Just to be clear, we (the LWG) would prefer that it be shorter too, it
> is just the amount of territory that needs to be covered that makes it
> long and complicated (I'm fairly sure that it is actually shorter than
> the WP ToU that it is derived from).
>
> > - Users don't read it because it is too boring, too long and too
> > difficult to understand (especially for the majority being not native
> > English speakers or understanding no English at all). They would be
> > surprised by the important parts later.
> > - Already active members of the community refuse to accept the terms
> > because they don't understand the needs and the content.
> >
> > If we need all that rules written down there, we should add a summary of
> > the points which are most important from our point of view at the
> > beginning. It could look like this:
> >
> > - You have access to personal data (OSM metadata). Please handle it
> > appropriate.
> > - Your contributions must not violate copyright.
> > - You must be 16 years or older to join OSM.
> > - We don't guarantee anything. [insert better wording here]
>
> We'll be discussing both the concept of a human readable summary and
> translations at a our meeting today (both ideas were floated at SOTM).
> I wouldn't put too much hope in it though, in the end we need users to
> agree to the terms themselves and not to a summary, adding one just
> means there is even more text that needs to be read (have a look at
> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en for the WP ToU).
> Translations are mainly an issue of cost (both initial and maintenance).
>
> > The OSMF has already a block policy ruling when users get blocked
> > permanently and how. If we add terms to the website, we should integrate
> > the block policy into the terms. This has the advantage that user
> > actively agree the block policy which makes it a lot easier to use it in
> > court (I am not talking about a fictional case here).
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Michael
> You were just complaining about the ToU being too long, adding the
> kitchen sink is definitely not going to make them shorter :-).
>
> Simon
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Board decision on Crimea complaint

[Heather Leson]

Martin, thank you. As mentioned,  I am working on that internal deadline.
The draft is currently under review.

How was your Saturday morning? Mine was writing and reviewing these drafts
on Crimea and other topics. I warmly remind you that consensus building
does take time. We are very much making every effort to meet the need.


Heather

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On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:18 PM Martin Koppenhoefer 
wrote:

>
>
> Am Mo., 28. Jan. 2019 um 18:33 Uhr schrieb Heather Leson <
> heat...@osmfoundation.org>:
>
>> Dear Martin and Colleagues,
>>
>> Since December, the Board has attempted to draft a public response. We
>> are still discussing.  I provided an update in the board meeting of January
>> 17, 2019 - https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2019-01-17
>>
>> Since that time, I have tried again to get agreement from the Board on
>> the full details. We have a new board and there is much discussion about
>> the text.
>>
>> I will try again tomorrow night to rewrite it and ask for permission to
>> share from the Board. Also, a quick note about the comments in Weekly OSM.
>> I am obliged to issue statements on discussions when the Board agrees to
>> the content of the statements.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Heather
>>
>
>
> Dear Heather, dear Board,
>
> thank you for the update. I understand you are all volunteers and there
> are also other pressing issues at the moment. Still it is now a lot of time
> that has passed since Nov. 17 / Dec. 10, 2018, and we are in a kind of
> limbo, because the board, in apparent conflict with its own
> disputed-territories policy [1], reversed the Data Working Group decision
> just a few days before the 2018 board elections, but so far did not provide
> any kind of explanation or new policy to replace the former one.
>
> While it already felt quite strange on Dec. 10 that you just proclaimed
> the annulation of the well-founded DWG decision without providing any kind
> of explanations or motivations, it is now alarming that there are still no
> explanations. While we do not have many general rules with regard to
> mapping, the on-the-ground rule was certainly for many years the guiding
> principle and foundation of every "OpenStreetMapping", and assured us peace
> in problem areas, so deviating from it would seem such a major change of
> direction, that I could not believe my eyes when I read it and no
> explanation was provided along.
>
> Frankly, the way it was done, just before the upcoming elections of a new
> board, and without actually bringing it to an end, would probably be
> considered terrible political style, in the regions I am familiar with.
>
> My suggestion to the board would be to set yourself a deadline, until
> which you will try to reach consensus within the new Board, and if you
> cannot come to a common statement which supports the decision of the old
> Board, you should reenact the DWG decision so we can get back to normal
> operations.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
>
> [1]
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Anyone who likes to organize an ID discussion panel at SotM?

[Heather Leson]

Dear Christine, Bryan and colleagues,

Thank you for this conversation. Christine, thanks for the consideration.
Many people use ID. It is part of OSM.

Bryan, i will reach out to separately on this topic. My goal is really to
understand using this example on how we might improve for all people. The
negativity is hard for me to, so we can start with a chat? More in a
separate note.

I have also had some interesting experiences and frankly, I think OSM
deserves to really think and do more. Call me an ally, but I believe there
is room for all of us. Community health is a big concern.

Thank you

Heather

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On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 5:23 PM Bryan Housel  wrote:

> Christine..
>
> We mustn't define “the community” as the few remaining handful of people
> who have not yet been driven off the mailing lists by persistent abusers
> and trolls.
>
> I am very aware of what people are saying about iD on all discussion
> channels.  I read all of it, even the stuff written in other languages, and
> even archives of mailing lists that I’ve long unsubscribed from.
>
> I encourage everyone to not put too much stock into what “the community”
> of mailing list haters thinks about iD.  It’s the same dozen or so people
> who have never liked me or iD much anyway.
>
> I meet with stakeholders every week about the improvements we’ve made in
> iD, *and I’m proud of the work that our small team has been able to
> accomplish with each new release*.  Right now there are 1000s of people
> editing with iD (most volunteering, but some paid) who will never stop by
> mailing list or a GitHub thread.  They far outnumber the voices that you
> hear on `talk` or `tagging`.
>
> In large part because of the escalating negativity, I will not be
> attending State of the Map.
>
> My strong recommendation to you is to fill the program with content that
> encourages community health, inspires people to be better to one another,
> and celebrates the great things people are building with OpenStreetMap.
>
> Thanks, Bryan
> ❤️, 🆔
>
>
>
> On May 29, 2019, at 5:55 AM, Christine Karch 
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> reading the discussions about the direction of ID development and how
> the community wants the ID at the OSM website I had the idea that there
> could perhaps be a panel at SotM. Does anyone want to organize an ID
> discussion panel at SotM? Please tell me or us (program committee in CC)
> and we can consider it. At the moment it would be sufficient to have
> someone (or more) who wants to organize it. All details could be defined
> later.
>
> As ID is a core feature at the OSM website I think this would be
> suitable for the main program at SotM.
>
> Additionally it is always possible to organize informal meetings, panels
> during SotM in the unconference space (we will provide a lot of it).
>
> By the way ticket sales is open. The Early Bird phase is until 7 July.
> Program announcement will be around 20 June.
>
> We will have our schedule meeting at 8 June. So it would be good to know
> if an ID panel should be planned. Details for the program booklet should
> be provided until end of July.
>
> Cheers
>
> Christine
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Re: [Diversity-talk] Your talk submission for SotM 2019

[Heather Leson]

HI folks, I heard back from Rebecca and Patricia. they will help out. We
would very much like to engage others. Let me know if you would like to be
involved.  We will need the following:

4 or 5 helpers (low prep, just help lead a discussion)
an OSM Diary. Happy to cowrite with you

Our allies at the Mozilla Diversity and Inclusion mailing list suggested a
format. I think it is helpful. I put the notes and format draft here. Edits
welcome

https://pads.ccc.de/bwWXryNYXv

See you soon

Heather

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On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 6:47 PM Heather Leson  wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I hope that your summer was grand.
>
> I am researching formats for this. One thing that might help us is to
> tackle what is inclusive language and what are some of the measures to
> improve diversity - specifically in the board and working groups. Thoughts?
>
> "The OSM community is global and diverse. Building on last year's Open
> Heroines conversation, we will co-create a space for OSM to talk about
> how to improve diversity and inclusion in our amazing project. All
> welcome."
>
> How can OSM be more diverse and inclusive? Join us to share your lessons
> and ideas on how we might grow and support a Diversity and Inclusive
> approach in OSM. This is an activity taking place across other 'open'
> communities. We will ask participants to co-create plans and identify how
> we might incorporate it into small and big activities within the global
> network. The format will be co-created with some potential outcomes. The
> goal is to be a conversation with interactive, participatory methods and
> some small group work.
>
> See more about this topic:
> https://blog.mozilla.org/internetcitizen/2019/03/04/open-source-inclusion/
> https://opensourcediversity.org/
> https://github.com/mozilla/diversity
>
>
> Shared planning space - https://pads.ccc.de/bwWXryNYXv
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Heather
> Heather Leson
> heatherle...@gmail.com
> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson
> Blog: textontechs.com
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 4:47 PM Heather Leson 
> wrote:
>
>> HI everyone, sorry for my delay.  Christine, thanks to you and the org
>> committee for this opportunity. We will make this time work for us.
>>
>>
>> Dear colleagues, I am going on leave until August 14th. shall we set up a
>> document to plan this session. Miriam - I have made remote participation
>> possible in the past. We will do our best.
>>
>> Heather
>>
>>
>> Heather Leson
>> heatherle...@gmail.com
>> Twitter/skype: HeatherLeson
>> Blog: textontechs.com
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 5:13 AM Miriam Mapanauta 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Christine,
>>>
>>> No problem from my side, I can be available remotely, I don't believe I
>>> will be able to attend the event.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Miriam
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 1:10 PM Christine Karch 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> yesterday we had our schedule meeting. It was quite difficult to find a
>>>> suitable place for your session as you have quite divergent availability
>>>> time frames mentioned.
>>>>
>>>> We scheduled your session for 09-22 at 14h. We got a warning that Miriam
>>>> is not available at this time. Could you please have a look at Miriam
>>>> availability times. They seem to be very limited, maybe you made a
>>>> mistake during the submission process.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Christine
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Miriam
>>> @mapanauta
>>>
>>
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[OSM-talk] Burnout in Open Communities - survey

[Heather Leson]

HI!
Many of us encounter burnout and/or exhaustion in open communities. This is
not something that people share often on these lists, but it is a growing
issue across open organizations.

There is a survey asking for input from Open Source Initiative:

The survey uses the *FLO* (Free/Libre/Open) acronym instead of *FLOSS*
because the scope of the research includes projects that aren't primarily
about software. In most ways, you can think of *FLO* and *FLOSS* as being
equivalent.

Survey results may be used to:

   - to help develop a presentation on recognizing, avoiding and recovering
   from burnout.²
   - to help develop anti-burnout self-help resources.³
   - inform more rigorous research on burnout in FLO project participants.


https://wyhdaad.limequery.com/578576

Some reading:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/23/open-source-sustainability/

Just the messenger. No affiliation. I'll share the results.

Take care,

Heather

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[OSM-talk] Reminder: OSM Etiquette guidelines

[Heather Leson]

Dears

OSM is such an incredible community of communities. I am sharing a reminder
that diversity and inclusion matter. Kindness and respect do as well.

Please take a few minutes to review our Etiquette guidelines:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Etiquette


Thanks and have a good weekend


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Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] SOTM Africa

[Heather Leson]

Thanks for this note.  I have been posting my support for sotm Africa via
social media.

The timing of sotm Africa coincides with 4 board members stepping down.  I
would have gladly gone but it would have likely been flagged as
inappropriate given the fact that in a few weeks I am retiring.


Thanks for supporting

Heather

On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 at 01:20, Jorden Verwer  wrote:

> Hello Steve,
>
> > I’m confused why you think all board members are volunteers? That
> > feels like a convenient fiction.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe board members receive no
> remuneration for their work for the OSMF. That makes them volunteers in
> my book.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jorden
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[OSM-talk] Fwd: [Foundations] [DEADLINE: MAY 15] Apply for FOSS Responders Funding… NOW!

[Heather Leson]

Hi folks, I hope you and yours are safe and resting

Maybe for one of your open source projects


Heather

-- Forwarded message -
From: Alyssa Wright 
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 at 02:11
Subject: [Foundations] [DEADLINE: MAY 15] Apply for FOSS Responders
Funding… NOW!
To: FLOSS Foundations 


Hi all,

Hope this note finds you well in light of current world events.

FOSS Responders <https://fossresponders.com/> is a working group of
volunteers with a purpose to help those in the open source community
affected by the economic fallout from COVID19.

Along with Indeed, Open Source Collective, Google, GitHub, Linux Fund,
Sentry (and more) we will be hosting our very first Virtual FOSS Funding
Event
<https://opencollective.com/foss-responders/events/virtual-funding-event-q2-2020-4edd1e3a>on
Friday, May 22nd.  And we want you!!

The event is a celebration of our community, our ingenuity, and our
resourcefulness during the best of times… and the worst of times. We’ll
have “rooms” set up to showcase selected projects and allocate $100K of
financial support.

*We encourage you to apply for that support
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeo7NwDVs9O1JJ9cVZmypEiw50lEuot7gu3-dqOswr2dazUzg/viewform>!
Deadline for Applications on May 15th. Act now! *

If you have any questions, feel free to ping me directly, email us at
he...@fossresponders.com and/or hop on the #fossresponders channel in the
opencollective <https://opencollective.slack.com/#/> workspace.

They say we’re all on this together. Let’s make it so.

Best,
Alyssa.

PS Whether you have a request or just an itch to see your open source
friends (Because seriously, what does their curation of imaginary
background really look like? Can you believe that's in their library?), *ALL
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

[Heather Leson]

Hello

This is fantastic.

Heather


On Sat, 1 Aug 2020, 02:30 Guillaume Rischard, 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The OSMF Board wants to facilitate and support improving infrastructure.
> During the Microgrants process, there were proposals that didn’t make it,
> but would together be a good pilot for a “OSM infrastructure” process, to
> learn how supporting osm infrastructure projects works well.
>
> The OSMF Board wants to fund a limited number of projects proposed by
> trusted long-term volunteers whose work we know and enjoy. We have selected
> the osm2pgsql and Potlatch microgrant proposals, and have a new proposal
> from Nominatim.
>
> In the long term, we want to re-activate the Engineering Working Group
> (EWG) by making it a place for decision making, project guidance and budget
> management for such projects.
>
> The Board would like your feedback on these three specific infrastructure
> projects:
> Nominatim
>
> Nominatim is the geocoding software that powers openstreetmap.org and
> many other apps and websites. Sarah wants to work on:
> 
>
>-
>
>finishing the localization efforts (improve address computation for
>different countries, localized address output)
>-
>
>making the software more user-friendly (reduce the number of
>programming languages by at least two, move side-projects into separate
>repos, reorganise the code so that Nominatim can become an Ubuntu package,
>docs, docs, docs)
>
> The full proposal is at 
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Nominatim_project_2020-07
>
> Potlatch 2
>
> Potlatch 2 used to be the default editor before iD took the relay. While
> usage is declining, it’s still used by 2500 (1.4%) users who did 10
> million (1.2%) changes in 2020.
> 
>
> Potlatch is built in Flash, which browsers will retire by the end of the
> year. Richard wants to adapt Potlatch 2 to the AIR platform so users who
> still rely on it can continue to use it.
>
> The full proposal is at 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microgrants/Microgrants_2020/Proposal/Potlatch_2_for_desktop
>
> osm2pgsql
>
> osm2pgsql loads OpenStreetMap data into databases suitable for
> applications like rendering into maps, geocoding with Nominatim, or general
> analysis. It is used on openstreetmap.org and in many other places.
> 
>
> While there has been constant paid and volunteer work on osm2pgsql, large
> scale architecture changes to pay off historical technical debt are needed
> to tackle long term challenges, and make future changes easier.
>
> Jochen wants to work on:
>
>-
>
>Hosting documentation on osm2pgsql.org
>-
>
>Rethinking the output of the program to make it more concise and
>useful
>-
>
>Tackling the refactoring and cleanup of the “middle” code.
>-
>
>Ongoing maintenance as needed
>-
>
>Other work from the road map as time permits
>
> The original budget and scope were limited by the microgrant framework.
> The current project goes beyond that, and addresses open issues and
> potential improvements further and better.
>
> The proposal is at
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql_project_2020-07
>
>
>
> Thank you and happy mapping
>
> Guillaume, for the OSMF board
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Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

[Heather Leson]

Good morning

As Celine mentioned, we are a coalition of people who want change in OSMF
and OSM. Our statement clearly states that we are willing to work with OSMF
(working groups, board, membership) and OSM (community, project and
network). This means collaboration with the local chapters and community
working group as well as building on the diversity statement made by the
board this year.  Many of you have seen a few of us state this before in
all the forums. Now is the time to listen and meet us half way.

You will note that many of the people who signed do not post on the OMSF
mailing list for fear of targeting. So, please consider why we want change.

On being a woman - every day we have to ask (demand) and show for our
rights to be equal. Every day we have to worry about sexualized actions
and/or comments. Some of us have been through horrible experiences and
others just want to never talk about gender again. So why do we bring it
up? We bring it up because we see it, we feel it and we experience it. What
I ask for you all is to spend a day talking with women in your lives.  We
just want to 'be' too, but the reason we speak up is because being called
derisive terms makes us not feel like this is a safe place. As such, we ask
to, as one person stated - focus on the issues, not the people. But, we
will focus on people and gender until we don't have to point out
discrepancies.

For Frederik - yes, you said a word that is sexualized and fairly violent
for many of us. Honestly, we have been catcalled and treated like objects
for years. Let's do better. I think you will too. Yes, your name is listed
there but only because it was 'the this time story' - meaning, yet another
reason why people leave OSM and or feel like they cannot participate. Words
matter. Tone Matters. We matter. I appreciate your passion for the project,
but please don't equate our passion for change as about you alone. This
document was written by many people. I, for one, don't 'hate' here.  We are
just trying to open up this conversation, no matter how raw it is for all
of us.

For comments about Frederik's name in the statement. I added a comment to
the statement document to consider if it should be a footnote, but to
recognize the origins of this statement and coalition "There were requests
on the OSMF mailing list to remove names from the statements. While this
was a trigger, perhaps this could go as a footnote?"

Mateusz Konieczny - your point about "citizens" is well noted. I added a
comment to consider editing this. "there was a comment on the OSMF mailing
list that not all people who benefit from OSM are citizens of a country
.This is very true especially with migrants and displaced people."

For John Whelan - "The danger in Celine's confrontational approach is we
throw the baby out with the dish water."

We are all here with her asking for change. We want OSM to be ok for us to
read and post to the list without being asked about babies and household
chores.

For Clay - this is why we all jointly wrote the note to stand together and
post as a group.

For Jean-Marc - thank you for considering the middle way and seeking to
listen and understand.

We were all fairly taken aback by his comments. The point is - we cannot
consistently keep saying there are issues and not do more. This was indeed
a trigger point. But let's focus on the bigger picture.

Let's work together to find a middle ground to be truly diverse and
inclusive. I am sure there will be many iterations of the planning as we
work to convert it into action.

Heather


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On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 7:58 AM Darafei Praliaskouski via osmf-talk <
osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:48 PM Maarten Deen  wrote:
>
>> I have been silent about this but when a document is drafted where only
>> supporters will be heard, I have to speak out in Frederiks support.
>> I have seen no systemic aggressive behaviour that demotivates and
>> excludes participation by women and minority groups in OSM or behaviour
>> that degrades the spirit of open community culture, and damages the
>> OpenStreetMap reputation from Frederik.
>>
>
> Basically, a person (who is a board candidate) was denied to be able to
> own their own will, substituted with their employer, and insulted in a way
> that I cannot construct a way of self-defense from.
>
> That was done by a former board member, an employee/owner of a company
> that has a seating board member, and if we mirror the whole thing - "done
> to protect Geofabrik's investment into having a seat on the board". Of
> course, such an interpretation will not be acceptable for current board
> member, employee of Geofabrik and ex

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

[Heather Leson]

Thank you to the board for listening to our appeal.

I look forward to collaborating on the next steps.

Heather

On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, 04:57 Allan Mustard, 
wrote:

> To the OSM and OSMF communities:
>
> I convey the following information on behalf of the Board of Directors of
> the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
>
> An outcome of the current controversy on the osmf-talk mailing list over
> misogynistic language is a decision by the Board as follows:
>
> The Board will find partners to help instate a moderator team for the
> OSMF-talk and talk mailing lists. These moderators need to have the trust
> of the community subject to the moderation (consent of the governed) by
> some kind of approval mechanism. This moderator team will start to work
> on enforcing the current Etiquette guidelines as soon as possible. We will
> also start work on updating/replacing our Etiquette rules, which must focus
> on balancing all participants' interests.
>
> We have asked the Local Chapters and Communities Working Group (LCCWG ) to
> take the lead on this and to work with signatories of the open letter to
> the Board [1] as well as members of the Diversity and Inclusion Special
> Committee to produce proposals for the Board to consider at its January
> meeting.  The LCCWG has accepted this task.  This issue will be on the
> agenda of the January meeting of the Board of Directors, exact time and
> date yet to be determined, though as is customary it will be posted to the
> Foundation's website well in advance.
>
> Members of the OSM community are, as always, welcome to share their
> opinions and any relevant information on this matter, either publicly via
> osmf-talk, or privately in direct communications to the LCCWG.  I feel
> compelled to remind all members of the community that a Code of Etiquette
> [2] has existed since June 2011 and shall be observed by all community
> members.
>
> Very best  regards to all,
> apm
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/130JCTX9ve4H4ORXznmIVTpXiN3TX8nRGA8ayuTZ9ECI/edit?ts=5fd11436#heading=h.ccgtgjykcfgh
> [2] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Etiquette
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> *Allan Mustard, Chairperson*
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> *OpenStreetMap Foundation*
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