Board/Minutes/2020-10-S2S/Taking stock of past 6 months
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Taking stock of past 6 months
Notes by board members.
Things accomplished, finished or other enacted since March 2020 OSMF Board retreat
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/apm-wa/diary/393843
- A few new local chapters (CZ, US, AR, Oceania, XK - local chapters outside Europe!)
- and several more in the pipeline
- New local chapter agreement contract, incl legal review of that
- Microgrants
- decision to hire SRE and software developer
- OSMF membership up by 370+
- raised $300k for SRE/iD
Things improving/trending better since March
- Good board cohesion and team spirit
- Support from community broadly for decisions and actions
- outreach to LCs via board meeting presentations
- continued community growth
- Spending the big pile of money we're collecting on our goals (Nominatim, OSM2pgsql, Potlatch, iD, SRE job, Microgrants)
- Active contributor membership agreement (hundreds of new members)
- Tile servers somewhat more stable
- More self hosting with FLOSS (e.g. the BBB server)
- Membership representing mappers (higher percentage of OSMF members are now regular mappers & from areas which was previously underrepresented)
Things unchanged since March
- Trust and Safety work
- Diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Attribution Guidelines not finished/adopted
- Controversial attribution practices by users/corporate members remain in place
- No significant new features implemented for API / Data model of OSM
- Low WG participation by membership
- State of the website
- Growth rate of mappers :)
- Takeover protections
- Long term technical and growth plans
- Articles of Association
- Brexit actions (relocate OSMF?)
- Active Contributor Members still can't run for board
- Email hosting
Things degrading since March
- How much time I can spend on OSMF work (Paul, Guillaume, Joost, Rory).
- Frustrating that stuff gets dropped due to lack of time/bandwidth, not lack of interest or motivation. (Guillaume)