<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54902"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54996">Yes, the broader topics of transparency are important but off topic here. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54902"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54902"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_55510">The admin assistant will improve frequency and depth of communications, and that will result in more transparency, though definitely not address everything you have brought up. Let's pick that up on another thread. </span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54902"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54902"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_55539">At the moment, the point of this thread is to share where we are with the admin assistant, and get any guidance from members as we look ahead.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54902"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54902">-Mikel</div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54901"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54900">* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, April 22, 2016 3:27 PM, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann@gmx.de> wrote:<br></font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On Friday 22 April 2016, Mikel Maron wrote:<div class="yqt1802376785" id="yqtfd19933"><br clear="none">> We are hopeful<br clear="none">> this position will be a big help with organizing the day to day for<br clear="none">> OSMF, result in more transparency to members, [...]</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Actually that is not going to work, unless of course you intend to hire <br clear="none">someone with the purpose of routinely communicating internas via side <br clear="none">channels - which you probably don't.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Transparency is a matter of organizational culture and as such has to <br clear="none">come from the top. Expecting an administrative assistent to take <br clear="none">initiative w.r.t. transparency is not plausible.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On a general note from my point of view the time since the last board <br clear="none">elections (which has been more than four month so the initial grace <br clear="none">period is surely over) has not been very progressive regarding <br clear="none">transparency. For example:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- none of the board meetings since then have been public.<br clear="none">- compared to last year board meeting protocols have been slow to appear <br clear="none">recently.<br clear="none">- the membership statistics have not been updated since December.<br clear="none">- the matter of recording individual board member votes has not been <br clear="none">revisited since 2015-06-15.<br clear="none">- as far as i can see there has been next to no public communications on <br clear="none">ongoing processes and discussions within the board, like the corporate <br clear="none">membership program.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I am sorry if this appears somewhat off-topic here - i don't mean to <br clear="none">bury other discussion on the matter of an administrative assistent with <br clear="none">it but with this in mind i think selling the idea of an assistent <br clear="none">position to the membership as a measure towards transparency is not <br clear="none">credible.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Christoph Hormann<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.imagico.de/" target="_blank">http://www.imagico.de/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">osmf-talk mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk</a><div class="yqt1802376785" id="yqtfd33202"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>