[Osmf-talk] Hiring help for OSMF administrative tasks

[Emilie Laffray]

Hello Martijn

OSMF already has a paid for accountant for quite some time now.
On Mar 11, 2015 9:35 AM, "Martijn van Exel" <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I am writing to ask your opinion of this idea (what tasks would you like
>> to see OSMF do more of, and where an administrative assistant could
>> help), but even more so to ask for your experience: Are you involved
>>
>
> If this is something that you all were able to reach  a quick agreement on
> I don't think there is a need to consult this list for opinions. You know
> best what your workload looks like, and what your priorities are. You are
> an elected board and we entrusted you with the power to make these calls.
>
> Sharing experiences may still be useful, and I can share ours from the US
> chapter where we have hired several folks, all on a contracting basis. A
> lawyer is helping us out (for a fixed fee) with getting registered charity
> status in the U.S. This is a complex process where we are benefiting
> greatly from his experience. We hired an accounting firm to help us get
> organized with our tax filings and bookkeeping, again on a contracting
> basis, but this is billed by the hour. We made sure we first got a decent
> estimate of what the total cost would be. We are also hiring a person to do
> our day-to-day bookkeeping, also on a hourly fee basis. These are contracts
> we can re-evaluate and terminate at any time should we wish to do so. The
> cost-benefit analysis clearly plays out favorably: we are able to focus
> more on the things we want to accomplish, like organizing events and
> growing the mapping community in the US. I would highly recommend looking
> into a setup like this. An internship as suggested below may seem
> attractive for its low (zero?) cost in €, but comes with overhead: this is
> a person who comes to primarily to learn and not to deliver results for the
> organization. They will need guidance and often there is a responsibility
> for us to report back to the institution where the trainee / intern is
> enrolled. All of that distracts from reaching your actual objectives.
>
> Martijn
>
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