Follow-up on FOSSGIS

English version based on an automatic translation with deepl. Following the discussion about my post on FOSSGIS membership fees, it has become clear to me that my account – and especially the suggestions I made – are somewhat incomplete. I have quite clearly criticized the fact that, since becoming a local representative of OpenStreetMap in Germany in 2017, the FOSSGIS association has failed to resolve the latent conflict between its role as an advocate for professional developers and users of free and open-source software in the GIS sector and its role as a representative of the German hobbyist mapping community. And I have made suggestions regarding membership fees and the association’s cultural openness to address this problem. However, these too – as should be clear to most – would not truly resolve the conflict. Therefore, I would like to outline here, as a supplement, how the conflict could be addressed at the strategic level and, hopefully, resolved in a sustainable manner. The…