The only advice to the board I offered was to ask Fred to limit the quantity and length of his essays as we couldn't keep up. But that's not new or unique advice.
I think Mike's been pretty helpful personally. I'd stay away from the elected/unelected thing, since almost all of the important roles in osm are unelected? Steve > On Nov 17, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote: > > I am a little concerned that the (already overwhelming) task of fixing OSMF, > which has been entrusted to a board of seven good people, is being made still > harder by people in mysterious unelected roles offering their advice. > > I know of at least two: Mike Collinson is chair of the (AIUI moribund) > 'Management Team'. Steve Coast is 'chairman emeritus' - I'm not sure whether > Simon Poole has also been offered this title. I believe (but don't know) > there may be others who receive copies of, and can send, management emails > but aren't elected in any way. > > Two requests: > > First, for the sake of openness, it would be good to see these relationships > documented on the OSMF website. > > Second, while the new board decides on its direction, a period of > self-imposed silence by these people would be considerate. Frederik, Kathleen > and Paul have been newly elected to do a difficult job. Their work will be > made all the more difficult by a cacophony of advice from those without a > mandate. > > This isn't personal - I like Mike very much, while I think it's fairly > comprehensively documented that Steve and I don't get on - but it seems, to > me, common decency that if you ask someone to do a job, you give them the > time and space to do it. > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
