[Osmf-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Hiring someone for a permanent position.

Firing a worker in Europe is extremely
hard compared to USA, in some cases
is not allowed to fire worker(s).

13 Aug 2020, 21:35 by allan at mustard.net:

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> Andy, et al, out of the        issues we are discussing in this proposal, what decisions would        be irreversible?  
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> The Board and those        community members who have responded are well aware of some        risks, and the questions before us are to determine the risks,        assess those risks, seek mitigations for the risks we can        possibly mitigate, and build safeguards around all the risks we        can identify.  If there are specific risks that worry you, or        that you think we have missed, please spell them out        explicitly--please don't just accuse me of a lack of awareness        without telling me of what I am unaware.  
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> Among the risks I worry        about are loss of our two sysadmins, which would leave us with        none; loss of our maintainer of the default editor; system        failure due to inability to grow to meet demand, which would        likely lead to a project fork by companies who at this point        need our data; and control of programmers and developers by        third parties rather than the community and the Foundation that        represents the community's interests.  I, at least, do not        consider risks such as these to be trivial.
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> cheers,
>  apm
> On 8/13/2020 4:56 AM, Andy Allan wrote:
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>> On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 00:31, Allan Mustard >> <allan at mustard.net> <mailto:allan at mustard.net>>>  wrote:
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>>> OSMF won't fail, simply because the "worst-case" scenario is reversion to the 100% do-ocracy of volunteers, which has its drawbacks but is doable, has been sustainable for nearly 16 years, and is very low cost.  That particular downside risk is very small, as in very close to zero.  The question is whether there are improvements to the platform within our reach, for which funds could be raised, that would not undermine the volunteer spirit of the OSM community and thereby to endanger the project.  The Board is listening to all voices, not only the loudest, and we encourage all with information and perspectives to share, to speak up.
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>> I'm unfortunately not reassured by your comment. If the head of thelocal council said "Don't worry, if this new dam doesn't work out aswe intended, the worst-case scenario is we'll drain the reservoir andmove back into the village" then I wouldn't be reassured by thateither. Both show a lack of awareness that some decisions aren'treversible, and sometimes you can't simply go back to what you didbefore.Thanks,Andy
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