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Il 25/08/2011 13:29, Oliver Kühn ha scritto:
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Hi,<br>
<br>
there are few statements going around that I really don't like.<br>
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Misused voting power and hostile takeovers as described in the
recent mail by Alessandro needs to be avoided. This is why Henk a
co are leading the initiative to adjust the Article of
Association. Everybody seems to need to make statements here but
there are just three people working on a regular basis meeting to
improve the AoA. <br>
<br>
Dear members, stop commenting and giving advice that will vanish
in the air. Go and become an active working group member to
improve things on a lasting basis!<br>
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Large organizations are not evil per se! There are large
organizations out there that are admired by many, many people
while other large organization are just known for the misuse of
power or bureaucracy. <br>
<br>
Dear members, stop making generalisations such as large is evil.
Go and apply for a board seat or become an active member of a
working group and make the OpenStreetMap Foundation an
organization that you are proud of! Lead the discussions to make
the trade-offs that are appropriate for the specifics of the
OpenStreetMap Foundation.<br>
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Dear members, if you have the impression that you know better than
then please become active yourself and stop complaining as an
outsider!<br>
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I am looking forward to see many of you talented guys on the
candidates list for the open board vacancies or as new members of
the working groups.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Oliver<br>
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Sorry Oliver, I didn't (intentionally) ment to be superficial with
my message. But probably you're right.<br>
I just added my name to all those members that have a project dear
but aren't enough involved to partecipate actively (in my case I
just map intermittently and do some <span class="clickable"><span
class="catgram"><span class="artsem">proselytism </span></span></span>locally
whenever I can).<br>
<br>
So, with your post you motivated me to take a step forward even if
my time is very limited: I see that the Local Chapter in Italy
hasn't been defined in the Wiki, so I'll contact our Simone Cortesi
and Niccolò Rigacci in order to see if I can be helpful with a local
NFP that is asking me to join the management committee as IT expert
to promote the territory.<br>
<br>
Anyway, I believe it's a good thing that so many People wanted to
share their opinion about the topic, even if their advice "will
vanish in the air". ;-)<br>
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Best Regards<br>
<br>
Alessandro Fanna<br>
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