<div dir="ltr">>> -shadow power structures<div>> it's not clear that the OSMF will function at all without Mikel secretly running it</div><div><br></div><div>I'm proud that both Simon and Steve both think I have secret powers! </div><div><br></div><div>I do volunteer with OSMF, as many former Board members have done and continue to do. I'm happy to catalog all the contributions I make if you really want. None of that is done in secret, but with delegation (the lack of which Simon also thinks is a problem) and full transparency from the Board, or through Committees or WGs. I do not have any decision making authority.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I fully realized I was making myself vulnerable to this kind of insinuation by sticking my neck out and drawing a connection between the membership situation and the situation on the Board. But I stand by this as an important connected factor. I'm offering my opinion -- as we are all ok to do as OSMF members. We need a basically functioning Board asap as a precondition to tackle the membership problem.</div><div><br></div><div>-Mikel</div><div><br></div><div>ps </div><div><br></div><div>> We need *someone* to notice that $100,000 invoices haven’t been sent after a year’s delay.</div><div>Fact check. It was just a few months, not a year.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 9:59 AM Steve Coast <<a href="mailto:steve@stevecoast.com">steve@stevecoast.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On Oct 20, 2024, at 7:28 AM, Simon Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch" target="_blank">simon@poole.ch</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">- shadow power structures. We've had this one before, a decade ago. What's novel this time around is Mikel and Guillaume trying to out do each other in occupying strategic positions in the organisation. Both of you: stop.
We are all grateful for the time you volunteer, but you both need to realize that you need to leave space for other people, and if you don't get a say in something that you believe you know better than others, regardless if true or not, then you don't get
a say, that's life. </span></p>
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<div>As much as I agree with you Simon, it’s not clear that the OSMF will function at all without Mikel secretly running it. We need *someone* to notice that $100,000 invoices haven’t been sent after a year’s delay.</div>
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