I don't think that it is really any of our business what HOT does with its funds.
I do consider it slightly ironical that HOT is approaching non-HOT OSM for funds to distribute to what are in the end OSM groups though, surely we can do that ourselves if it should be done at all. Wouldn't we rather want to spend our money on making groups dependent on us (as in larger OSM and the OSMF) and not on an organisation we don't control at all? Making that process transparent is then in our hands (see my suggestion to have funds dissemination to be done by a different group than the OSMF board). Simon Am 16.12.2017 um 17:52 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: > 2017-12-16 17:04 GMT+01:00 Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com > <mailto:sea...@gmail.com>>: > > > And surely saying that the decision-making process is "completely > intransparent" is just being plain lazy. Here are several blog > posts and documents providing quite a bit of detail into the > process and results that can be reached with just a couple minutes > of Googling: > > > https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2016-12-06_funds_for_community_led_projects_the_2017_hot_microgrants_program > > <https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2016-12-06_funds_for_community_led_projects_the_2017_hot_microgrants_program> > > https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-02-02_hot_microgrants_programme_launches_0 > > <https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-02-02_hot_microgrants_programme_launches_0> > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SVI_wxf0CbZ2pOOf8kuqREkZwvmxmSTp9i3jbHsBkCo/edit > > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SVI_wxf0CbZ2pOOf8kuqREkZwvmxmSTp9i3jbHsBkCo/edit> > https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-04-20_hot_microgrants_2017_results > <https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-04-20_hot_microgrants_2017_results> > > > > Eugene, you have posted 4 links, can you please explain how these > pages contribute to transparency of the decision making process? The > only 2 hints about the selection process I have found are as vague as > possible: > > > "* Who decides? > Applications will be evaluated and funding decisions made by a panel > with representation from HOT senior staff, Board of Directors, HOT > voting membership, donor organizations, and external advisors." > > and then: > "We had a fantastic response to our first ever Microgrants Programme, > with over 70 applications from nearly 50 countries worldwide. After > much deliberation, we’re pleased to announce we are supporting the > following projects with Microgrants for 2017 (in no particular order):" > (followed by a list of 8 projects) > > Cheers, > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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