Hi, In the last board minutes [1] there was written "Report of meeting with German auto industry in Ingolstadt". Additionally, there was a board member in official mission at the Telematics 2011 [2]. Telematics describes itself as "largest focused telematics event in Europe that will bring together global car manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers to discuss future telematics strategy and launch new products into the market". Automotive suppliers have/had OSM related job offerings. One current offering from Audi's SatNav supplier is for a student, topic "Converting OSM data and evaluation of a database model" [3].
Many board applications at the last election had statements like "If I will be elected, I will improve the communication". If board members/the board meet with the same for-profit organisations repeatedly I would think that the community will be informed at least to avoid conspiracy theories. Some questions come into my mind and since I think this is of greater interest, I am asking the questions here 1. How many meetings with the auto industry have been attended by board members in the name of OSM? 2. What was the main subject? 3. Are there any non-disclosure agreements signed or was there any other agreement that prevents the OSMF Board to talk about the content of the meetings? (Learned that from the ESRI case) Thanks a lot in advance. Regards Thomas [1] https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1wY0TJBRCCj4p5wWSidD8wFh5l9Afb5GtZP5G5FP2-eE [2] http://www.telematicsupdate.com/munich/past-attendees.php [3] https://096.rexx-server.com/portal-elektrobit/grabber/stelle_preview.php?u=3soft&ga=1&sgl=eng&sl=eng&id=0_1483&sid=9dd2008a5fd9c5211f0e8b553199d8c6&popup=1&printit=1 -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSMF-Board-auto-industry-What-s-the-story-tp5720039.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
