+1 Hear, hear! Thank you, Robin for an eloquent response. --SEJ
Sent from my electronic tether. > On Oct 4, 2014, at 12:42, Robin Tolochko <robin.toloc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I considered not running for the board because of the low number of edits > that I've done, but ultimately decided that I have a lot to contribute to OSM > in other ways. It is anyone's prerogative to not vote for someone while > taking edits into account, but I want to explain why I decided to run despite > my low number of edits. > > I recently moved back to the U.S. after living in Bogota, Colombia, for the > last four years. While living there, I used OSM data regularly in my job as a > cartographer at an NGO and ran OSM workshops for local university students. I > just moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where I am starting up a Maptime chapter > and plan to do an introduction to OSM as our first session. I have been > wanting to get more involved with OSM, and I realized that I could put my > community outreach and organizing to use by running for the board. > > As I and many other nominees stated, it's important to get new people > involved. But editing OSM can be quite intimidating to a new person, and I > would make it a priority to improve the on-ramp. I also think that we should > take advantage of existing learning networks, like universities, to spread > awareness of OSM and recruit more contributors. I know that these are > ambitious goals, and they may take more than a year, but those would be my > priorities on the board. > > I don't think it would be wise for the OSM U.S. board to be comprised > entirely of inexperienced mappers, but I think it could benefit from having > someone on board who brings a fresh perspective and could even be considered > an "outsider." The future success of OSM, after all, depends on bringing more > outsiders into the fold. Also, I did not make the decision to run for board > lightly. I recognize that it would be a serious time and energy commitment, > but serving on the board would take advantage of my strengths to give back to > an organization that I deeply believe in. > > I'm happy to talk with anyone, so please feel free to reach out to me via > email or Twitter. > > Saludos, > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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