You too Andy, great post. On 5 Mar 2009, at 02:57, Andy Allan wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:40 AM, MP <singular...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Yes. At least when you expect 100000 people to go along and the >>> issue >>> has the potential to break OSM apart, it would not be a bad idea >>> to send >>> monthly information about the state of things. >> >> Hmm ... perhaps sometimes it would be good to mass-email all members >> when it is about changes with possibly devastating (mass deletion) >> effect. Not everybody reads various blogs or parts of wiki around >> OSM, >> but almost everybody reads their email. > > Hang on, here's something which has been misunderstood. There's a good > reason that we haven't emailed all 100,000 people yet. We're not sure > whether the OSMF endorses the new license, which is itself still in a > draft. If you look at the license plan ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan > ) you'll see it comes in the following stages: > > 1) Make the plan and the draft public. Ask for feedback. > 2) Wait for feedback to be taken into account and expect/hope for a > final version of the ODbL > 3) See if the OSMF board approves > 4) See if OSMF members like what results > 5) If they do, then start asking the rest of the community > > *So we're at point 1*. We've always assumed that if you're the kind of > person who wants to be involved in drafting licenses, reviewing > incomplete licenses and so on you'll get involved. Most people > probably don't care. That's why legal-talk subscriptions aren't > compulsory in order to use the API. > > If you feel left out of stage 3, then maybe you should become a member > of the OSMF. That's what it's there for. But again, not everyone is > interested in the running of the project, doing behind the scenes > stuff, holding the OSMF Board to account etc. Which is why OSMF > membership isn't compulsory either. > > There's all chances that the OSMF members won't vote for the license, > in which case it won't be put to the community at all Or maybe they > will. The way the plan is seems to me a sensible staged approach of > involvment - first the Board, then the Members, then the community at > large. It needs to get through all three stages to work, and if any > group disapproves, it stops. And we involve the smallest group first, > then a bigger, then the biggest. > > Now because things are being done publicly, lots of people who are > only interested in stage 5 think that we've skipped a few stages. > Maybe we've found some people who want to be invovled in stage 1 who > didn't realise until now that they did. Good. It's nice to have more > people interested. > > Cheers, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
