<div dir="ltr">> <a href="https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finance_Committee/Minutes/2024-05-22#Report_to_the_Advisory_Board" target="_blank">https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finance_Committee/Minutes/2024-05-22#Report_to_the_Advisory_Board</a><div><br></div><div>Something is lost in translation in these minutes and a couple threads intertwined. It's not accurate.</div><div><br></div><div>In Q2, I organized an Advisory Board meeting (which includes both corporate members and local chapters), and I presented and discussed the 2024 OSMF Budget (which was already publicly released). There was really no substantial input from that discussion. I report on any Advisory Board related conversations to the Board monthly.</div><div><br></div><div>There has also been discussion on providing donors of larger corporate gifts with updates. These would be less financial and more narrative about progress on technical work. Again it would not be based on any information that's not already public.</div><div><br></div><div>If the FC were to start publishing reports more frequently than annual (and I think they should and quarterly is a sensible pace), then any direct communications about them with corporate members would be based on that public information. So far this has not happened.</div><div><br></div><div>-Mikel<br><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 6:06 AM Simon Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">simon@poole.ch</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"><u></u>
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<div>Am 21.10.2024 um 11:45 schrieb Mikel
Maron:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I don't disagree on the request -- would be good
and no problem to publish more frequent financials and minutes.
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<div>But please do not spread falsehoods. "reconciled monthly
financials available ... to corporate members" is pure
fiction.</div>
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5:38 AM Simon Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch" target="_blank">simon@poole.ch</a>>
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one time in the history of the OSMF a commitment was made by
the <br>
board to provide the membership with regular (iirc at the time
it was <br>
quarterly) financials. On and off this was done over the
years, but it <br>
currently has lapsed for a long time. I'm the first person to
agree that <br>
doing this is a lot of work with little gain, but as a matter
of <br>
principle I would still think that this should be provided.<br>
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Browsing the Finance Committee minutes for this year it seems
that a lot <br>
of progress has been made, and that there are actually
reconciled <br>
monthly financials available internally and to corporate
members, just <br>
not to the wider membership. That is, lets say, not a good
look. I would <br>
suggest that these be made available, if necessary in redacted
form, to <br>
all members.<br>
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Simon<br>
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PS: the minutes of the FC abruptly stop after June, I assume
that is <br>
just an oversight?<br>
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