<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> It seems to me now that the board in the majority considers </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">themselves more administrators and less decision makers than i though. </span><br></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div>That's incorrect. </div><div><br></div><div>If you are really interested in how the Board works, I'm happy to talk with you directly -- let's set up a time to talk and I can take you through how I see it.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">> But just to clarify: Implementing term limits would from my point of </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">view result in zero increase in work. </span><br></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">This is also incorrect. Thinking through a proper proposal for this change would involve definite work.</span></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp998668f0signature">* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div></div>
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On Friday, November 10, 2017, 12:13:27 PM EST, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann@gmx.de> wrote:
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<div>On Friday 10 November 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> > So can someone please point out my error?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Your error seems to lie in the assumption that board just needs to<br clear="none">> pass a resolution and everything else will magically sort itself out.<br clear="none">> There are some boards in other organisations that may enjoy that kind<br clear="none">> of power but they usually have more paid staff than we do. Should we<br clear="none">> start hiring ;)?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My error seems to have been a wrong understanding of how the board <br clear="none">works. It seems to me now that the board in the majority considers <br clear="none">themselves more administrators and less decision makers than i though. <br clear="none">I say this without judgement, just an observation.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But just to clarify: Implementing term limits would from my point of <br clear="none">view result in zero increase in work. Changing the mode of elections <br clear="none">to fixed terms would result in a very moderate temporary increase in <br clear="none">work because of the required changes in the internal procedures. But i <br clear="none">understand that most other decisions result in a lot of work so it is <br clear="none">understandable you are reluctant to make unnecessary decisions and <br clear="none">changes in general.<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><div class="yqt5652797262" id="yqtfd93619"><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><br clear="none"></div></div>
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