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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks for all of
this. Yes, and this is why the Board intends to create a
fund-raising committee, precisely to address such issues. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/15/2020 4:29 PM, Edward Bainton
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<div dir="ltr">Congratulations on your election, Jean-Marc.
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<div>I completely support these proposals. I'm sorry that I'm
not financial enough to have a view on the level of reserves
required.
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<div>I will say that in the UK charity sector, reserves are
usually quoted as months of full expenditure in hand - so
assume no mitigation is possible. (If it is possible, that's
great, but you think about your reserves level as the number
of months you could continue to operate at full expenditure
with no income.)
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<div>I think the point about perverse incentives for the
sysadmin if their salary depends on one or two big donors
is well worth discussion. (Influence of this sort is
presumably part of many donors' calculations when deciding
whether to donate. That's stated as a fact of life, not
necessarily as an argument against their donations.) In
part, reserves are for ensuring you have space to maneuvre
if a donor goes sour.</div>
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<div>I was the one who asked at the AGM about reserves (as a
full member, not as a guest ;-) and I also asked about a
donations policy. At the risk of diverting the thread, imo
every donation-taking org should have a donations policy,
which details </div>
<div>- who we will and won't accept donations from; </div>
<div>- what conditions, if any, we're prepared to accept;</div>
<div>- approval & due diligence processes; </div>
<div>- how to avoid 'donor capture' by diversifying income
streams (this last being relevant to the peverse
incentives)</div>
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<div>That's another piece of work, but I think related.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 19:41,
Craig Allan <<a href="mailto:allan@iafrica.com"
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<div>Yes, noted. Thanks Simon for the input. The 'formal'
version in the AoA is strangely vague. Now I know why. <br>
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<div>And let me respond to that anonymous board member that
there will NEVER be enough open geo data! <br>
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<div>We have done so much, but have hardly scratched the
surface of what we could achieve in the long term. <br>
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<div>On 2020/12/15 20:48, Simon Poole wrote:<br>
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Am 15.12.2020 um 16:44 schrieb Craig Allan: <br>
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THE FRAMEWORK <br>
Policy can be seen as a set of rules to implement our
organisational strategy. Strategy is informed by our
mission (Section 3 of the AoA) and the long term vision
of the organisation (missing). So in any organisation
there will be likely be a hierarchy of plans, each more
detailed than its parent, ending eventually in a large
list of short-term tasks. <br>
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Sorry to jump on this in a bit of an off topic fashion,
but I believe you are misunderstanding something there. <br>
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The "Objects" section in the AoA, that is section 3, is
legally required and deliberately vague and unrestrained
because of that. When we were discussing the 1st revision
of the AoAs many years ago there was a longer discussion
if we should change 3. to limit the scope to OSM, but for
the above mentioned reasons we decided against it. It is
however clear that is not a sensible starting point for
any kind of policy, setting of goals or anything similar.
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This has led to misunderstandings in the past, including a
board member, paraphrased, coming to the conclusion that
once there is enough open geo data we could let OSM die. <br>
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A far more sensible starting point is the 1st paragraph of
<a
href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Mission_Statement"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Mission_Statement</a>
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