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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Greetings, OpenStreetMap Foundation,<br>
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      I would suggest to define the position as the Administrative
      Assistant & Non Profit Fundraising Specialist.<br>
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      I participated recently at a meeting of a large non profit
      organization. I understood that fund-raising involves a lot of
      skills, professional knowledge, and administrate work of its paid
      staff. There are numerous channels, some of them could be
      automated, some require a lot of manual work.<br>
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      There are training courses, webinars, conferences, etc. in this
      domain [1].<br>
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      [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.afpnet.org/">http://www.afpnet.org/</a> Association of Fundraising
      Professionals - AFP<br>
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      Best regards,<br>
      Oleksiy<br>
      <br>
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      On 22/04/16 22:00, Mikel Maron wrote:<br>
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        <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>
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        <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>
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        <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>
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        <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54902">-Mikel</div>
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          id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1461344193959_54900">* Mikel Maron
          * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div>
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              <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday,
                  April 22, 2016 3:27 PM, Christoph Hormann
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:chris_hormann@gmx.de"><chris_hormann@gmx.de></a> wrote:<br>
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                <div class="y_msg_container">On Friday 22 April 2016,
                  Mikel Maron wrote:
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                    > 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>
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                  <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">
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                  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
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                  <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">
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                  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">
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                  -- <br clear="none">
                  Christoph Hormann<br clear="none">
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