<div dir="ltr">Hi Christine,<div><br></div><div>I don't have a wish list, as such, but i do hope that many of the discussions that have started around this election will carry forward productively into the new Board term.</div><div><br></div><div>There's been a lot to think about over the last couple of weeks, but what has stuck with me strongly is a couple of emails from John Crowley:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2017-November/004473.html">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2017-November/004473.html</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2017-November/004475.html">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2017-November/004475.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">> once a group takes on responsibility for providing reliable services at a global scale,
> with industries of small, medium, and global businesses depending on the
> underlying infrastructure and millions of contributors, amateur structures
> break down.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal">This is something I agree with, although I wouldn't have been able to make the points in the two emails as eloquently myself. When casting my vote I asked myself who I thought had the ambition and skills required to steer the OSMF into a position where it was as globally important as the Wikimedia Foundation; I believe much of this will rely on community and organisational leadership.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal">Cheers, Joseph</div><div><br></div></pre></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 December 2017 at 10:41, Christine Karch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christine@hermione.de" target="_blank">christine@hermione.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I hope the OSMF board members see their work at the board as a kind of<br>
service for the community. There is a lot of work to do. I don't wish or<br>
need any kind of leadership from the OSMF board.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Christine<br>
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