<div dir="auto"><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">"I have no idea if this is true and no way to verify it"</span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">This should've been a possible survey response; as it is we're just playing Aunt Sally,</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Cheers, Joseph</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, 19:47 Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
recently two different people who used to work for (different) large<br>
companies dealing with OSM told me that their employers regularly<br>
suggested that everyone became an OSMF member, reimbursed them for the<br>
membership fee, and also circulated "suggested voting" instructions for<br>
the OSMF elections.<br>
<br>
(I have no idea if this is true and no way to verify it, but it doesn't<br>
sound far-fetched. I'd be happy to hear if anyone has witnessed such<br>
dynamics first-hand.)<br>
<br>
I've discussed this with a few people and the reactions ranged from<br>
"this is outrageous" over "what did you expect" to "this is totally ok,<br>
after all there's enough other people publishing their own voting<br>
recommendations on the lists too".<br>
<br>
What's your opinion on this?<br>
<br>
I've tried my hand at setting up a "LimeSurvey" instance which asks the<br>
question and if it works all right it will show some statistics directly<br>
after you've replied:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://survey.gryph.de/index.php/528658?lang=en" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://survey.gryph.de/index.php/528658?lang=en</a><br>
<br>
Though I am also interested in a more detailed discussion on the topic.<br>
Is it an issue? Are there lessons to learn from other nonprofit<br>
organisations?<br>
<br>
Bye<br>
Frederik<br>
<br>
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Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br>
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