[Osmf-talk] Hiring help for OSMF administrative tasks

[Joseph Reeves]

>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.

And if the community decide that none of them wanting to be doing x hours a
week on paperwork and would rather pay someone to do it?

A community project can still hire staff, especially if the community fails
to provide the people interested in doing it. That's understandable - who
gets involved for the joy of mapping and then moves to the joy of
administrata?

"Community projects shouldn't employ staff" is guff, sorry.




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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