[Osmf-talk] Board term limits and term lengths

[Christoph Hormann]

On Friday 10 November 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
> We've made great steps ahead in transparency, even allowing guests at
> board meetings. It is now easier than ever for an interested voter
> (or member of the press) to get a first-hand impression of who does
> what, who argues what in the board.

Indeed - i think it is important to acknowledge the current board's 
progress in that field.  And i would also like to voice a bit of 
critique for my fellow OSMF members here who for the most part make 
very little use of these new possibilities.  I try to visit the board 
meetings whenever i find the time and i am often the only visitor 
present.  And there also seems to be only a handful of people who 
regularly read meeting minutes and ask questions regarding ongoing OSMF 
work here.

Being an OSMF member is a priviledge - even if the membership fee is 
small change for you you owe it to the countless OSM community members 
for whom it is not so easy to become a member or to participate in 
discourse in the OSMF due to language barriers as well as to the board 
members you have elected (or had the chance to elect) to support and 
supervise their work at least occasionally.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/