Foundation/AGM2023/Election to Board/Answers and manifestos/Q01 Strategic Plan
Strategic Plan
- What are your long-term visions and goals for the further development of OpenStreetMap?
- How does that align with the recently updated OSMF Strategic Plan?
- How do you plan to implement these plans as a Board member?
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Related link added on 2023-11-20 for members: Strategic Plan page
Roland Olbricht - Q01 Strategic Plan
I've voted for this Strategic Plan. As member of the Engineering Working Group, I'm also actively working on some of the items.
Note that many positions of the Strategic Plan have responsibilities assigned to it. Also, the board related itmes will take hopefully some, but not too many years to iplement. Nontheless, they are a huge work package and sketch pretty completely the urgent and important things to do.
There are three extra points to mention:
We shall start to attract the next generation. The existing generation of mappers have been intrinsically motivated by the absence of useable map data before OpenStreetMap came to frution. Now, good map data is a commodity, and we need to retell the story to remind people that there is hard and ongoing work behind the data. This is too long-term and not a job of the OSMF but rather OSM at large, so rightfully not in the Strategic Plan and independent of board work.
When it comes to diversity, there is still a lot of room for improvement for simpler map editing. When one wants to map more complicated things than just a street or a POI, then it can easily need far more than an hour of work. And that is quite a lot en bloc for many people. Many attempts for this are underway, and it is again not a job of the OSMF board to intervene here. But it is crucial for OpenStreetMap's long term success.
The data model change will involve the OSMF, but not the board. As the involved working groups signalled to rather resolve that on their own initiative, this again is not in the board's Strategic Plan.
Said that, there is a lot on the plate for the board proper, and doing team work to get that done is far better than disrupting here with even extra ideas and end up starting everything, completing nothing.
Guillaume Rischard - Q01 Strategic Plan
My long-term vision for OpenStreetMap is it becoming the default map because it has eclipsed its competitors in accuracy, completeness, actuality and detail. We are slowly getting there: everyone who is anyone in the map industry uses OpenStreetMap somehow.
As a board member, most of my focus since then has been on improving the technical infrastructure to ensure its reliability, for example by installing redundant network links in both our data centres. I will keep doing that, continue supporting and developing the community, improve the OSMF as an institution, and reform its financial infrastructure - my manifesto goes into more detail on that. The strategic plan isn't a rigid set of directions but more a wide map. It's crucial to remain agile, adaptable, responding to unforeseen challenges with pragmatic solutions while staying true to our long-term objectives. For example, Overture wasn't part of the plan.
We have a complete strategic plan for the first time. We must now decide how to track objectives and key results, and probably revisit the plan in a year to update it based on progress, changes and community feedback.
I extend my gratitude to Allan, Craig, and Sarah, whose experience, dedication and insights were invaluable in shaping these strategic documents.
Daniela (Dani) Waltersdorfer Jimenez - Q01 Strategic Plan
I decided to run because I think the OSMF and its Board needs to showcase diversity to better support the community it represents. I also would like to work towards better strategies and plans for the application and acceptance process for local chapters. The OSMF has to learn from its global members and understand the distinct needs existing and potential chapters have, I've said it many times, one size does not fit all, and everything cannot simply big black-or-white. This should not be scary, for our differences is what makes this project the great success it is.
Włodzimierz Bartczak - Q01 Strategic Plan
The Strategic Plan approved this year is a document that cannot be disagreed with. All the issues raised in it, have been discussed many times in the community. Personally, I would like to see a more detailed document describing how we intend to implement the Strategic Plan.
The key areas he would like to see addressed are those related to building and strengthening local communities. As someone who sits on the board of OSM Poland, I am familiar with the problems we face in our operations, and I can identify the areas where support is most needed.
Ivo Reano - Q01 Strategic Plan
I firmly believe that OpenStreetMap is the only opinion-free and open geographic data source and that this should be its purpose. As a member of the Council, I honestly don't know what I could do, but I put my knowledge and experience at the service of the community.
OSM Foundation's board election 2023: official questions
Q01 Strategic Plan
| Q02 On imagery sources
| Q03 On Diversity and Inclusion
| Q04 On Fundraising
| Q05 On appointive board-adjacent positions
| Q06 OSMF and Overture Maps Foundation
| Q07 OSM Data: Protection
| Q08 OSM Data: Legal Threats
| Q09 OSM Data: Vandalism
All board candidates' manifestos
2023 OpenStreetMap Foundation's: Board election - Voting information and instructions - Annual General Meeting
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