Arnalie is right that being on the Board is hard at first. It takes a while to learn how the OSMF Board works behind the curtains - but look at her now using that learning to make a huge push on community growth and all the encouragement and empowerment of our contributors - especially in Africa and Asia! go! go! go! /ca

Re: assanges 29 Jan 2021 I’m following an OSMF policy that we choose to be nice to newbies without any exceptions. If you read the minutes, even the most evil vandals are blocked and removed in astonishingly polite, patient, civil language. The reason we behave like adults, exercise self-discipline and sit on our anger is that we are trying to build an inclusive organisation and it is very clear that displays of arrogance, aggression and flame-wars just drive the less-aggro people away.
There is some talk of creating an OMSF moderating committee to police unfriendly posting, but even when that is implemented the lists or comment sequences will be expected to self-regulate. This discussion is just that - a comment sequence self-regulating. Thank you for participating.

With reference to Supaplex 21 Jan 2021 at 05:00. It is openstreetmap policy that discussions should be helpful and positive. I noticed that the comment referred to was perhaps angry and raised a threat. That is unfortunate and does not follow the guidelines. It would be better if the comment helpfully assisted the diary owner to understand that OSM has just one policy for mapping of all the very many disputed territories across the world.

This is very useful Naveen. Membership is very important - I am interested in finding a bunch of good examples for building OSM membership and teaching mapping skills - your workflow of developing community links with Telegram is great. Can I remind you of the OSMF micro-grants programme which is a competitive process which can potentially-possibly-maybe support expanding, documenting and formalising pilot programmes like this.