Thanks for sharing!

Tyler - thanks for this message and for the summit greetings.

HOT is on an OSM journey. I really appreciated your focus on community health, reflection on OSM, as well as equality and inclusion.

Heather

As a past board member, I approve of this AoA change. Board work can be high volume and the membershp deserves to have things resolved in a timely and collaborative way. OSMF is changing and it is important the membership be engaged in board activities which can support the OSM project. Thank you

great stuff

thanks for these observations based on experience

Thanks for sharing and both being part of the global community

thank you for your leadership

Frederik, this is great. In Toronto, teams were mapping fruit trees. This then connected to an urban harvest team that picked the fruit and redistributed it to communities.

Thank you for this analysis.

congratulations! Looking forward to seeing how this helps local communities

wonderful. Have a fantastic event

It would be helpful to have aggregation points, but yes I also feel you.

Happy Anniversary

Hello, As I said on the list, I appreciate the steps that the board is taking to move this topic forward. The diversity statement review and conversation should move to some kind of version controlled document, so that we can read it inline. I appreciate that everyone here has spent their weekend considering this. Truly. However, it is very difficult to line -by -line analyze, then weigh in between all your statements.

Clearly, we need a diversity statement. Let’s not wait 10 years for a diversity statement, community plan around diversity and inclusion, plan around contributions/engagement, or a code of conduct. It is hard to keep stating this. But, we are stating to see some headway.

I applaud this view and am happy there are others stating this now: “We have to think consciously about where OSM will be in 15 years and prepare for that. That is in fact the Board’s job. A diversity policy that makes clear we embrace pretty much everybody who wants to contribute is part of that preparation.”

thank you

Heather

I appreciate your report back. Hope it is a good experience for you

Thanks for this post!

Thanks again for this discussion.

I set up a spreadsheet to code the content.. Happy for someone to put this into other formats. I simply can’t properly analyze this in a wiki

Thanks for this discussion. I would also like to thank those who clearly made this a safe place to talk.

I shared details from previous small group brainstorming around building diversity

From above, the matching points are:

• open dialogue
• support existing communities and spaces - Diversity mailing list, Geochicas
• mentorship
• being an ally (supportive, inclusive and factual language)
• leadership support (Board, working groups)
• community planning

I also added items to the SWOT (opportunities) section

@apm-wa Thanks for your response. I reviewed the input thus far and added my comments. Thanks for the CWG for sharing this widely. I have also used my online social capital to share. I do this in good faith that this exercise will not be ‘paint’, but a true process with follow through.

In terms of ‘accountability’, I am fairly disturbed that the perspective cites factions - “As for a “community curated OSM strategy and project roadmap”, let’s please take one step at a time. There is a faction within OSM’s community that has expressed strong opinions that nothing is broken and thus no actions are needed by the Board, period. “

I agree that there are communities of communities. I appreciate this open process. And, I encourage people to share and add their points. As for governance of OSM, it is clear that the way we are structured recruits ‘heros’ and often does not use the OSM methodology to truly problem solve.

Looking forward to watching and contributing

Heather

@Baloo Uriza - thanks for your honesty. We are all human. The key is that we want this project to exist and thrive. I hope that you can take care. Stress and burnout are such a big part of open projects. All we can do is be allies with each other.

Heather