<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">On Saturday, September 20, 2014 11:06 PM, Simon Poole <simon@poole.ch> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div dir="ltr"> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br clear="none">Where we need really need more diversity is in the OSMF membership (in<br clear="none">the end that is our representative political body), for example by<br clear="none">making it financially easier to join. It is not quite clear if we will<br
clear="none">have a proposal for the November GM, but it is being worked on.<br clear="none"><br>>> If I may suggest several ideas on membership</div><div class="y_msg_container">* Accepting donation for membership in multiple currency, currently when I donate through Paypal/Credit Card, the currency rate for Poundsterling is bad</div><div class="y_msg_container">* Giving options to donate more than the membership fee (and perhaps give some merchandise?)</div><div class="y_msg_container">* Create a badge for member to put in their website/blog (kind of "I support OSM Foundation, you can do it too!")</div><div class="y_msg_container">* Newsletter for OSMF member </div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">Best,</div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container">-Iyan</div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container"><br
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