> Everyone was super keen to make OSM in to a web of committees, and this is one root of the problem from an organizational point of view. Oh come come Steve,

> Everyone was super keen to make OSM in to a web of committees, and this is one root of the problem from an organizational point of view. Oh come come Steve, you know better than me that's not true. There is one genuine committee in OSM (OSMF board, which does nothing, which is probably a good thing given how well their attempts to do something work out) and three things that are nominally committees but in reality just a small number of self-motivated volunteers doing thankless grunt work (Licensing Working Group, Data Working Group, State of the Map [conference] Working Group). OSM is about the least hierarchical, least committee-fied project there is. Compare to Wikimedia - or, you know, any form of government - if you want to see what committees are really like.