Board/Minutes/2020-10
Draft agenda.
Date and time: Thursday, 22nd of October 2020 at 17:00 London time - Countdown
Location: Video room https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/ror-nt7-6tu
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Participants
Board members
Guests
Open to all OSMF members.
Guests are welcome to speak at the end of the meeting on the topics that have been discussed.
Not Present
Administrative
Previous minutes
Circular Resolutions
Board_Rules_of_Order#7._Circular_Resolutions
2020/Res47 Approve active contributor membership application 2020083110000326
The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis. |
Did not pass on 2020-09-25 with 3 votes against: Paul Norman, Tobias Knerr (The research contributions are probably made as part of a paid job, and therefore cannot be considered), Guillaume Rischard (Agree with Tobias). |
2020/Res48 Approve active contributor membership application 2020082510000436
The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis. |
Did not pass on 2020-09-29 with 6 votes against: Mikel Maron, Tobias Knerr, Paul Norman, Joost Schouppe, Guillaume Rischard, Rory McCann (No sustained long term contribution to OSM). |
2020/Res49 Approve active contributor membership application 2020092210000271
The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis. |
Did not pass on 2020-10-05 with 4 votes against: Rory McCann, Tobias Knerr, Joost Schouppe (they have been editing for a longer while, but should give us more to work with), Mikel Maron (not seeing evidence of contribution outside of mapping. so keep on mapping to get to the mapping days requirement). |
2020/Res50 Accept the proposed new contract for Dorothea
In attachment* version as shared by e-mail (Sep 4th)**, with minor additions:
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Did not pass on 2020-10-16 with 1 vote against: Paul Norman (Discussion has revealed unsettled issues with the contract). |
* file size: 35 KB, file type: .odt
** with Secretary
*** extended (was: 2020-10-09)
2020/Res51 Approve active contributor membership application 2020083010000426
The Board currently decides on active contributor membership applications based on non-mapping contributions on a case-by-case basis. |
Did not pass on 2020-10-10 with 3 votes against: Paul Norman (Please re-apply with information about non-mapping contributions in the last year), Allan Mustard, Guillaume Rischard (No significant non-mapping contribution in the past year). |
2020/Res52 Update ban policy to clarify procedures and length of bans
The current ban policy doesn't reflect how moderators are able to ban users for longer periods of time.
In practice, long-term blocks are (rarely) necessary for repeat offenders or grave cases. Before the website allowed this, DWG members had to contact the sysadmins to get these blocks extended manually, which was tedious. The proposal is to update the policy to reflect current practice. The proposed changes are shown at https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AStereo%2FDraft_ban_policy&type=revision&diff=7653&oldid=7651 |
Voting closed on 2020-10-19 with: |
2020/Res53 Uphold Data Working Group ban on user jdd 3 AKA John D.
User jdd 3 has appealed their one-year ban from editing OSM to the Board on the advice of DWG member SomeoneElse. Their appeal was received by electronic mail from address ________* and was addressed both to board@osmfoundation.org and to individual Board members. |
Passed on 2020-10-19 with 7 votes in favour: Paul Norman, Tobias Knerr (Personal information, notably the user's email address, should be removed from the text of the circular before we publish it in the minutes), Mikel Maron, Guillaume Rischard, Joost Schouppe, Rory McCann, Allan Mustard. |
* Known to board. Currently not shown.
Previous action items
See Board/Action_Items.
Action items updates
Treasurer's report
Attribution Guidelines status update
The board had received a draft attribution guideline by the Licensing Working Group (LWG) and is working on its text.
Attribution related meetings, excluding recurring board and LWG meetings
Attribution related board minutes:
Attribution guidance related LWG minutes:
OSMF members related discussions: |
Suggested by Joost. |
Articles of Association amendment proposals
Related to this email thread on the membership mailing list. (you need to be an OSMF member to register. Archive of emails available to all).
Current Articles of Association here. |
Suggested by Joost. |
Personnel committee
This is related to a discussion during the March 2020 board screen-to-screen meeting, where it was suggested to create a personnel committee. The resulting action item was to "Scope out boundaries on committee, safety measures, how to mitigate effects on volunteers, e.g. de-motivation".
Previous board discussion
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Suggested by Mikel. |
Advisory Board - monthly update
The Advisory Board members are separate from the OSMF board of directors - individuals are either nominated by Corporate Members of the OSMF or invited directly by the OSMF board of directors. The OSMF Board of Directors will publicly minute, in the board meeting minutes, any communication sent to, or received from, the AB members. This monthly section is reserved for this purpose. Overview of board communications with representatives on the Advisory Board. |
Joost |
Monthly Local Chapter presentation
About this section: New idea: Invite a LC to speak at each OSMF Board meeting. |
Arranged by Rory. |
FLOSSK became a Local Chapter for Kosovo last month and will be presenting.
Any other business
Closed session
Discussing the suggested new contract for Dorothea, as worked out by TimeLessTime
Reason for being closed: this is a sensitive Human Resources matter.
Related to Res50 Accept the proposed new contract for Dorothea. |
Suggested by Joost. |
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