Foundation/AGM21/Election to Board/Answers and manifestos
Below are links to the answers of the 2021 OSMF board election candidates and their manifestos. The official set of questions was compiled by our election facilitator, Michael Collinson, based on questions by the community. It was up to the candidates to answer all the questions or just a few of them. Our suggestion was to answer all of them. The official answers and questions thereof should be what voters use to judge.
Suggested community discussion period: 2021-11-19 to 2021-12-04 16:00 UTC (when voting opens).
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Notes
Order The ordering follows the order of candidate self-nominations.
Receipt of answers and manifestos
- Before deadline: Mikel Maron, Amanda McCann, Roland Olbricht, Guillaume Rischard, Bryan Housel
- After deadline: Michal Migurski (45 hours)
Editing this and linked pages with answers and manifestos
Candidates please do not edit the pages. Non-candidates, free to improve/streamline the formatting of the pages, without changing the answers. Thank you.
Some abbreviations
- DWG = Data Working Group
- EWG = Engineering Working Group
- LCCWG = Local Chapters and Communities Working Group
- LWG = Licensing Working Group
- MWG = Membership Working Group
- OWG = Operations Working Group
- SotM = State of the Map
- SotM-WG = State of the Map organising committee
- WG = Working Group
Candidates
| Name | Nationality | Country of residence | OSMF member since (will be confirmed*) | OSMuser links |
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| Guillaume Rischard | Luxembourgish | USA | 2013-05-03 (confirmed) |  Stereo (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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| Michal Migurski | U.S. + Polish | USA | 2016-07-28 (confirmed) | migurski (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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| Amanda McCann | European Union/Irish | Germany | 2013-09-07 (confirmed) |  Amᵃᵖanda (᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️🌈 on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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| Mikel Maron | American | USA | 2007-06-09 (confirmed) | Mikel (mikelmaron on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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| Roland Olbricht | German | Germany | 2012-08-23 (confirmed) | drolbr (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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| Bryan Housel | U.S. + Slovakia | United States | 2015-09-18 (confirmed) |  bhousel (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)
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All manifestos
Q1 Your OSM activities
Q2 What are your board member goals
Q3 Your time
Q4 Do you have any previous relevant experience
Q5 Transparency: Conflicts of interest
Q6 How important is OpenStreetMap being a worldwide map to you and why?
Q7 Attribution and editor links by major map data users
Q8 Dealing with disputes, mediation
Q9 You and OSMF Strategic Plan Outline
Q10 Technology Gaps
Q11 How to increase mapper retention
Q12 Role of OSMF in large-scale data tagging disputes
Q13 Use of proprietary communication channels in OSM
Q14 OSM Carto rendering cycle on zoom levels 1-12
OSM Foundation's board election 2021 - OSM Foundation's Annual General Meeting 2021: information and agenda
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