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Community Consultation - Etiquette Guidelines and Moderation for OSM /OSMF

Posted by Heather Leson on 31 August 2021 in English.

We seek your community input - please help us by sharing the Etiquette guidelines and giving input on the OSM wiki by September 8, 2021. We also have some upcoming consultation meetings to hear your views. ## Announcement

The LCCWG moderation subcommittee is holding two online public meetings about the revisions to the current Etiquette Guidelines, which are now open for public comment.

The draft guidelines are found here, with comments open to Sept 8:

Both public online meetings will be held via Big Blue Button in this room:

Two timeslots to accommodate a global audience.

Meeting #1: Thursday September 2; 1400 UTC (your time zone)

7 AM Pacific Time (US) 10 AM Eastern Time (US) 2 PM UTC 4 PM Central European Time

Meeting #2: Saturday, September 4; 06:00 UTC (your time zone)

11:00 PM Pacific Time (US; evening of Sept 3) 02:00 AM Eastern Time (US) 06:00 AM UTC 08:00 AM Central European Time 09:00 Nairobi 11:45 Kathmandu 1300 Jakarta 1400 Manila 1600 Sydney

Give input on the OSM wiki by September 8, 2021

See full details for the Etiquette and moderation process on the wiki -. The draft guidelines are found here, with comments open to Sept 8th, 2021

With thanks on behalf of the subcommittee

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Discussion

Comment from benoitdd on 1 September 2021 at 09:58

@Nordøk: you have absolutely no edit, no comments etc. Are you even a mapper? As a newbie (welcome by the way), it might be smart of you to take time to learn how the OSM community works, before making assumption that the only way to contribute to the OSM project is editing the map.

Comment from Heather Leson on 3 September 2021 at 06:39

@benoitDD - merci

@Nordok Welcome to OSM.

Thanks for this question. I’ve been involved in OSM for over a decade. My roles have included community builder, event host, mentor, working group member, governance, writer, and board member for both HOT and OSMF. My passion for the project does not sway when people continue to ask what my value is and whether I am a “mapper” or a “manager”.

I guess I can say a few points:

  • Research before critique: the data points exist on the OSM on what I have done or contribute. No one should have to justify that they want to be involved in OSM or that they are engaged in the project.
  • People before data: we are a community, a project, a network that have passion for the project and each other’s ability to engage.
  • Community: there is much to do in OSM to make it a safe and healthy space. The point of this diary post is to encourage better shared space. I hope you can read more about this and meet your community allies along the way.

Now, I am going to go back to focusing on the OSM community chat with presentations from around the world. I look forward to meet you in spaces like that so that we can build OSM together

Happy Friday

Heather

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