[Osmf-talk] Working with Dorothea full-time

[Manfred A. Reiter]

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Frederik Ramm <frederik at osmfoundation.org> schrieb am Fr., 8. Nov. 2019,
19:26:

> Dear OSMF mebers,
>
> since March 2018 we have enjoyed the support of Dorothea Kazazi, from
> Athens, in many aspects of OSMF work. Dorothea has not only greased the
> wheels of board work by writing meeting minutes, preparing the agenda
> and communicating it; she's also doing the following things:
>
> * managing the corporate membership roster, replying to requests,
> signing up new corporate members, documenting it in CiviCRM
> * staffing the OSMF desk at State of the Map
> * helping with Local Chapter applications and paperwork
> * dealing with requests for membership lists
> * with MWG, managing the membership fee waivers
> * maintaining the OSMF wiki/website
> * with MWG, managing the board election and AGM tasks
> * helping arrange and run the board face-to-face meeting
>
> Dorothea has spent between 40 and 90 hours per month on non-conference
> OSMF business since January this year, and has also worked separately
> for the State of the Map conference[1], bringing her total hours to
> between 60 and 140 per month. (For comparison, in a standard full-time
> employment situation in Germany you'd expect an employee to work about
> 147 hours per month with vacation time considered.)
>
> We discussed this situation at our Face-to-face meeting this year[2].
> Our thoughts about the future of this relationship are driven by two
> factors:
>
> 1. We are very pleased with the work that Dorothea has done, and we can
> envisage a couple of additional fields where Dorothea's help would be
> welcome, for example by lending more support to working groups or
> regional SotM conferences, by helping with the administration of the
> upcoming microgrant programme, and others.
>
> 2. We feel that it is very selfish of us to promise to buy only 60 hours
> of work but then more or less assume that Dorothea is available for more
> if needed (as she has been). With things as they are, Dorothea could
> sign up other clients and be unavailable to us any time, or she could
> even take on a full-time job somewhere. If we want Dorothea to be
> available almost full-time then we ought to give her a proper contract
> that says so, and pay for it.
>
> The board has therefore decided to evaluate ways of working with
> Dorothea full-time, either in an employment or freelance setup, and
> we're working with a consultancy in the UK to find out what our options
> are. We assume that the cost of working with Dorothea full-time would be
> between EUR 30k and EUR 40k per year.
>
> We will keep you posted about further developments, and we're happy to
> hear any comments you have on this plan.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
> [1] If you're interested in helping with State of the Map, see
>
> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/11/07/the-state-of-the-map-working-group-is-looking-for-you/
> [2]
>
> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2019/05/28/osmf-board-face-to-face-meeting-2019/
>
> --
> Frederik Ramm
> Treasurer
> OpenStreetMap Foundation
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