[Board] What is the relationship between OSGeo and OSM?

[Cameron Shorter]

Within volunteer organisations such as OSGeo and Open Street Map, legal 
structures such as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) hold much less 
weight and value than they do within proprietary organisations. That is 
because they have little coercive influence over the people within the 
organisation. What matters is the hearts, minds and actions of the 
volunteers. Observe how people spend their time and I think that is the 
measure you should reference.

Search OSGeo user profiles to see how many reference Open Street Map or 
OSM. Note also that they are people like me who are active OSGeo 
contributors, who believe in the core values of OSM and are silent OSM 
contributors.

I think the statement you will likely want to make is that OSGeo and OSM 
have very similar goals (maybe quote them), and that many volunteers 
contribute to both. OSGeo focuses on software, OSM focuses on data.

On 26/4/19 5:10 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
> We consider them a friend (as opposed to partner where we have an 
> agreement or joint activity). We have a description of the 
> relationship here: http://www.osgeo.org/partners/osm/
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 04:14, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 
> <astrid_emde at osgeo.org <mailto:astrid_emde at osgeo.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Angelos, hello Maria,
>
>     and thanks for the answers.
>
>     OSM is catagoriesed as "Like minded Organization". So that looks fine.
>
>     But maybe we should work on the wikipage and update it.
>
>     https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
>
>     I added some SotM Events to our event page. Hope that is ok.
>
>     https://osgeo.org/events/
>
>     Astrid
>
>     Am 25.04.2019 12:28 schrieb Angelos Tzotsos:
>     > There was a discussion between board members of both organizations
>     > during FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn.
>     >  We were told at that time that OSM does not operate with MoUs
>     but we
>     > agreed to keep in touch.
>     >
>     >  On 4/25/19 12:42 PM, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
>     >
>     >> We are in close contact with GeoChicas... but nothing official.
>     >>
>     >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:20 AM Astrid Emde (OSGeo)
>     >> <astrid_emde at osgeo.org <mailto:astrid_emde at osgeo.org>>
>     >> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>> Hello all,
>     >>>
>     >>> i am preparing a talk for this years SotM in Heidelberg and was
>     >>> thinking
>     >>> about the releationship from OSGeo to OpenStreetMap.
>     >>>
>     >>> Do we have any agreement or MoU?
>     >>>
>     >>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_OSGeo_All [1]
>     >>>
>     >>> I only found this https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap [2]
>     >>>
>     >>> Astrid
>     >>>
>     >>> --
>     >>>
>     >>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>     >>> Astrid Emde
>     >>> OSGeo Board Member and OSGeo Secretary
>     >>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>     >>> https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/ [3]
>     >>> astrid_emde at osgeo.org <mailto:astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
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>     > --
>     > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>     > Charter Member
>     > Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>     > http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos [5]
>     >
>     >
>     > Links:
>     > ------
>     > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_OSGeo_All
>     > [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap
>     > [3] https://www.osgeo.org/member/astrid-emde/
>     > [4] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
>     > [5] http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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Cameron Shorter
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