[Osmf-talk] Closed portion of the last board meeting

[Simon Poole]

A lot better. Less generous with the euphemisms* and actually relating
the facts.

Simon

* particularly considering that in any other context they would be
de-coded as "we've run out of money, and because of that we are
terminating 50% of you and giving C-levels a 50% raise".

Am 16.02.2020 um 13:40 schrieb Joost Schouppe:
> Simon,
>
> None of the above. Would this have been better?
>
> We discussed our ongoing investigation to examine possible future
> modifications to Dorothea's contract; with an eye to retaining her
> valuable services, while minimizing overhead costs. We decided to
> continue that work, but recognized it would take more than a few
> weeks. Meanwhile the current contract was due to expire, so we decided
> to extend that for the time being.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 1:22 PM Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch
> <mailto:simon at poole.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Joost
>
>     It is not quite clear from this if the attempt to regularize
>     Dorotheas employment situation has fizzled out, been given up, or
>     been dropped because of the general OSM philosophies (which are
>     all new to me).
>
>     Simon
>
>     Am 16.02.2020 um 11:51 schrieb Joost Schouppe [OSMF secretary]:
>>     Hi,
>>     Sometimes the Board has a closed portion during the monthly
>>     meeting. As well as explaining in advance why we plan them, we
>>     want to publicly report on them as well. By nature, we can't go
>>     into much detail. 
>>
>>     During the last meeting, this is what we decided during the
>>     closed portion [1].
>>
>>     We decided to extend Dorothea's contract, which was due to expire
>>     soon, and to examine possible future modifications to her
>>     contract with an eye to retaining Dorothea's valuable services
>>     while minimizing overhead costs, in keeping with the general OSM
>>     philosophies of fairness, economy, and cost containment. 
>>
>>     1:
>>     https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board/Minutes/2020-01#Closed_portion_of_meeting
>>
>>
>>
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