Wow Michael, that sure is an all-male US board you're suggesting. I hope nobody heeds you our we have bigger problems than I thought.
The question of growth in the US is complex, as is the question of gender and contributing to communities such as this. Communities, that is to say, that have zero self-awareness about the problems in a message like this. Who knows: maybe threads like this explain the edit history, too. One thing that's certain is that there is no correlation between the work of a competent board member and making edits. Things like leadership, fundraising, organizing, project management, events, etc. are part of the work of a board. It's too bad we also require the ability to don a radiation suit to deal with threads like this. -Randy Dear US electorate, Am Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:16:50 -0700 schrieb Alex Barth: > And - it's not to late to run for elections! Get your name up on the > list by October 10th. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/ United_States/Elections/2015#Candidates And this is my censorious analysis reviewing all candidates: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nakaner/diary/36098 *Summary* I think that some candidates are suitable and some are not suitable. It looks as the number of edits and the time since the first map edit is proportional to the suitability of each candidate (with some exceptions). You, the US community, have got some very great candidates which have recognized the bad situation the US community is in (see posting by Martijn van Exel). These candidates have realized that the board has to change its focus and focus on the community all over the country and not the so-called "community" attending SotM US. A good map needs a large and active community and not an annual conference which is present in the media and tweets 1440 times per day. Reading some of the manifestos, I threw my hands up in horror. Some candidates have less experience – neither in editing nor in OSM-related coding. I believe that following fictional conversation might have happened: "I want to join OSM." – "Well, you just have to run for OSM US board elections. You'll get to know the US community after election and learn mapping after election, too." I myself wonder if these people just want to become a board member to have a nice entry in their CV. If someone is really crazy about OSM, he/ she invests more time into OSM than just uploading 40 changesets. This user diary entry is not neutral and shows my European-based opinion. That's why editing/coding experience is a very important criteria from my point of view. I don't pussyfoot aroung, I clearly write what's in my mind. Best regards Michael aka Nakaner PS I have already watched the first half of the virtual townhall. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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