<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>> </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">But my impression is that the majority don't want to see OSMF become a larger, staffed organisation with fundraisers and the like.</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px;"> </span></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>We already have fundraisers actually, for hardware. And we're pretty much staffed, but entirely by volunteers. I don't think it needs to become much larger myself, but could consider change in structure.</div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left:
5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Chance <tom@acrewoods.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Simon Poole <simon@osmfoundation.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" <osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 2, 2013 9:22 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Osmf-talk] OSMF Articles of Association - Discussion on
Revision for 2013 AGM - Corporate Membership<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv3233043429"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv3233043429gmail_extra">On 2 May 2013 12:14, Simon Poole <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simon@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:simon@osmfoundation.org">simon@osmfoundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="yiv3233043429gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="yiv3233043429gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div> I could imagine that when we have a<br>
discussion about what kind of financing model we would like to have in<br>
the future (assuming that impromptu donation drives may become to dicey<br>
and painful with larger yearly budgets) that a possible model would be<br>
at least partial financing via higher membership fees for corporate<br>
members.</div></blockquote></div><br>I haven't seen an equivalent to Frederik's opinion poll on the kind of financing model we want. But my impression is that the majority don't want to see OSMF become a larger, staffed organisation with fundraisers and the like. There isn't an appetite for raising significant sums of money from corporations for OSMF activities. If a future board was elected with a clear mandate to go in this direction (which I would personally support) then that would change things.</div>
<div class="yiv3233043429gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="yiv3233043429gmail_extra">So if we were to go down the road of allowing companies to be supporting members without voting rights, it would be for the data, code, ideas and outreach that they can bring to the Foundation and the wider community, and in recognition of the financial and technical support they give in keeping our IT systems going.</div>
<div class="yiv3233043429gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="yiv3233043429gmail_extra">Regards,</div><div class="yiv3233043429gmail_extra">Tom<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tom.acrewoods.net/">http://tom.acrewoods.net</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/tom_chance">http://twitter.com/tom_chance</a>
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