[Osmf-talk] Working with Dorothea full-time

[Steve Friedl]

Hello fellow OSMFers,

I cannot tell you what a wonderful asset Dorothea has been to the Foundation.

Though her main work is supporting our Board, she also helps out the Membership Working Group, and it's just remarkable how somebody can be so organized, so on top of things, and so cheerful ALL THE TIME. She helped keep things moving for the State of the Map as well.

In a world of strong personalities and polarizing characters, I don't believe I have heard of even an inkling of a negative thought of Dorothea - I cannot say that about many people - and she's so good at her job that many don't even know she's here.

I respected Dorothea's work on her own merits, but then learned that she was a serious mapper long before she took this position.  She is one of us!

Getting more of her is a win for absolutely everybody: the maps have to run on time, and she's the gal to make it so.

I stand in enthusiastic applause at this development. Cheers/prosit/salud to Dorothea!

Steve - a member of, but not speaking for, the Membership Working Group
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at osmfoundation.org> 
Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 3:25 PM
To: osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Osmf-talk] Working with Dorothea full-time

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/

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