On Saturday 28 November 2015, Tom Taylor wrote: > [...] > > As a naive lurker on the lists, I took the announced candidacies at > face value. That is, committed individuals decided individually to > run for office. I agree that if all of them got elected, HOT would > dominate the Board, but that is surely not a foregone conclusion. But > do you really have evidence of a HOT conspiracy as opposed to a set > of committed individuals?
Within the general OSM community it is probably not a widespread assumption that there is a cabal within HOT that pulls the strings behind the curtains - although there are events where you can get this idea - like when several people from HOT suddenly turn up in a discussion all representing the same standpoint. But many mappers notice that people engaged with HOT often share certain views and approaches to things that are less common among other mappers. You can see this to some extent in the answers to the questions for the OSMF board candidates. So when people have reservations w.r.t. board candidates with a HOT background this does not necessarily mean they have a problem with the HOT project or its organization or its influence on the OSMF. It could simply be they have reservations regarding the views shared by those people which could well be the same views that also motivated them for participating in HOT. > I note the references to Kate Chapman as representative of HOT. She > is no longer executive director there. This probably deserves some clarification: In contrast to the OSMF where everyone able to spend the membership fee can become member membership of the HOT origanization is restricted, the current members vote who can become a new member. See https://hotosm.org/voting-members Also in contrast to the OSMF activities of the HOT membership are not generally public (feel free to correct me if i am wrong here). Also HOT members have certain obligations of contributing to HOT activities as outlined on https://hotosm.org/sites/default/files/HOT_Membership_Code.pdf According to the available information Kate is a member of HOT - so are several candidates for the OSMF board: Mikel Maron Joseph Reeves Yantisa Akhadi Other candidates are active in HOT to some extent (like participating in HOT mapping tasks) but are not members of the HOT organization. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
