[Osmf-talk] Hiring help for OSMF administrative tasks

[Gregory]

Pulling this back to the paid-staff subject...

I think a paid member would be good for OSMF. Clearly defined job
role/tasks would be good, including who can give them tasks and how they
prioritise tasks.
It could potentially improve transparency by allowing minutes and notes to
be typed up quicker. Obligations, such as managing and sharing the member
list, could also become easier because the staff member would just reply
and do what was needed rather than have political issues behind it.

>From Durham,
Gregory.

On 11 March 2015 at 10:52, Peter Barth <osm at won2.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Frederik, you may possibly already know my opinion and I'd like
> to state it publicly.
>
> I have been and I am still a big oponent to paying staff. We're a
> community project, so either put your time in for free or step
> down and let others do the work. Let us try to not make the same
> mistakes as WMF did.
>
> Anyway, what really upsets me when reading your mail: Every member
> talked about transparency in their manifestos, everyone had one or the
> other plan. And indeed, there had been *one* summary of a board
> meeting written by Paul, but that's been all. There had been another
> article stating how cool the f2f meeting was and how well everyone
> played with the others. But honestly, I'm not interessted in that but
> in the results, in your work,.. just by accident someone discovered
> there will not be a SOTM this year, why isn't that published? I had
> to wait several weeks to learn about your plans of hiring staff. For
> what? You don't even know, you're asking us.
>
> I'm really disapointed. Not by you (Frederik) but by you, the
> OSMF-board. Nothing changed, it just got worse.
>
> Regards,
> Peda
>
>
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