To be clear, I am not volunteering myself- besides giving time to the LWG, I have a baby coming in less than a month, so I'm trying to have fewer projects, not more. I'm just trying to help defend the board :)
(And yes, I know all about cat herding. If the phrase translated well it would have been on my last business card.) Luis On Fri, Apr 1, 2016, 9:31 PM Greg Morgan <dr.kludge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:55 AM Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> > On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > On 4/1/2016 12:22 AM, Greg Morgan wrote: >>> >> I would think that the US Board should add another board member to be >>> a communications manager. I now understand why corporations have paid >>> staff that do nothing but manage all these communication options. >>> > >>> > Why would this need to be a board member as opposed to another >>> volunteer managing communications without being a board member? >>> >>> Because volunteers tend to be terrible at doing work that isn’t fun. >>> >> >> Good thing board members are paid, then! Oh, wait ;) >> >> Seriously, I'm with Paul- a designated group of volunteers who actually >> enjoys and wants to do this would create a lot of value. (Casually engaged >> people like me would get a lot out of it.) >> >> But making the board *more* of a working board is not a healthy trend. >> Except in a few very, very key areas (finance, mostly) the board should be >> about identifying issues and encouraging people to work on them, not doing >> things themselves. >> > > Luis, I am one hundred percent behind you. Just like with Martijn, I > helped out with a starting wiki page. A blank page is no fun. Here you > go.[1] Go man Go! If you have the secret sauce to grease the wheels, then > document away. You would answer the problem for US OSM and many other > volunteer organizations. Please remember, the US Board is still the owner > and would require approval when you have an implementation plan with your > "casually engaged people." I've been around enough people from Missouri to > say, "Show Me!" Well then there is Linus Torvalds: “Talk is cheap. Show me > the code.” I also found two links that provide you with another > perspective on Steve's statement, "Because volunteers tend to be terrible > at doing work that isn’t fun." [2], [3] > > As always we'll be watching and supporting you. I've have a watch marked > on the wiki page so that I can cheer for you. > > I hope this helps, > Greg > > > [1] > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Communications > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herding_cats > [3] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=herding+cats >
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