[Osmf-talk] Questions to the board regarding the membership state of GlobalLogic employees

[Guillaume Rischard]

Hello,

I can confirm that I revoked 95 memberships from GlobalLogic employees. We’ve also added the ‘employer’ information for everyone involved.

We know of at least one person who is still a member and no longer with GlobalLogic.

Guillaume

> On 9 Nov 2019, at 00:08, Steve Friedl <steve at unixwiz.net> wrote:
> 
> Speaking as one on the Membership Working Group, almost all have been removed.
> 
> The procedure determined by the Board and by MWG was to send all ~100 an email saying that you're going to be removed as a member in (I think) 10 days unless you respond personally that you wish to remain; if you do nothing, you will be removed.
> 
> MWG received maybe a half dozen response saying they'd like to remain, and all the rest were removed.  I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was very small, and those who remained were generally those who had a previously-known presence in the OSM community.
> 
> Those that remain would have to renew their membership in order to vote at the next election; I don't know if they have done so.
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Reichert <osm-ml at michreichert.de> 
> Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 2:59 PM
> To: board at osmfoundation.org
> Cc: OSMF Talk <osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [Osmf-talk] Questions to the board regarding the membership state of GlobalLogic employees
> 
> Dear OSMF Board of Directors,
> 
> the unwelcome mass signup of employees by GlobalLogic is about one year ago. They were not eligible to vote at the last annual general meeting.
> 
> I would like to ask the board the following to questions:
> 
> (1) Are the employees still member? Have they been excluded so far?
> 
> (2) If they are still members, will the be eligible to vote at the upcoming AGM if their membership account is not in arrears?
> 
> These questions make members of the German OSM community worry and I would like to see these worries having been addressed already.
> 
> The published membership statistics do not seem to reflect a loss of about 100 associated members.
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Membership/Statistics
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael
> 
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