<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp2cba1b0eyahoo-style-wrap"><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">If the membership fee for OSMF is a financial burden, the OSMF Board will review any requests for a fee waiver from potential members. This is a temporary measure, while a full process is implemented (if you are interested to help, please let us know!) Below are details on the decision, how we'll handle applications from yesterday, and how to apply.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">To apply:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> email board@osmfoundation.org, with your first and last name, country of residence, OSM id. Also please state that you are applying for fee waiver because of financial hardship, and give a short account of your activities in OpenStreetMap.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">On the decision:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">At the 2014 Annual General Meeting [1], it was decided</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">> <span><span style="color: rgb(30, 32, 33); font-family: osmftext, sans-serif; font-size: 16.52px;"> The membership fee for associate membership, which normally is tied to the regular membership fee, may be waived if paying the fee would constitute an unreasonable burden to the member, either because of financial hardship or because of the lack of a suitable money transfer facility.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="color: rgb(30, 32, 33); font-family: osmftext, sans-serif; font-size: 16.52px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="color: rgb(30, 32, 33); font-family: osmftext, sans-serif; font-size: 16.52px;"><br></span></span></div><div><font color="#1e2021" face="osmftext, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16.52px;">Implementation was delegated to the Membership Working Group. Yesterday, they announced the full process for waiver because of lack of suitable money transfer [2].</span></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="color: rgb(30, 32, 33); font-family: osmftext, sans-serif; font-size: 16.52px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="color: rgb(30, 32, 33); font-family: osmftext, sans-serif; font-size: 16.52px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">At yesterday's Board meeting, we resolved to review fee waiver requests for financial hardship. [3]<br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">> <span><span style="color: rgb(30, 32, 33); font-family: osmftext, sans-serif; font-size: 16.52px;">The membership fee waiver program has not been implemented yet. However, today (2018-11-15) there was a flurry of emails sent to the board and the Membership Working Group from people asking to join the Foundation and the fee to be waived. The board will review the requests and individually decide on the waiver. If approved, the membership join date will be the date of the approval.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The starting date of membership will be recorded on the day they are processed. That means that applicants from yesterday will not be members in time to participate in this year's AGM. There was a request to delay the AGM to accommodate more sign ups through this process; however the AGM time and date had already been announced.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[1] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meetings/14</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[2] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2018-November/005427.html</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[3] https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2018-11-15#Voting_on_reviewing_recent_fee_waiver_requests<br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br></div></div></body></html>