|| On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:05:27 +0200 || Stefano Maffulli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
sm> more employees, 3 offices in 3 different countries to manage, new sm> projects financed by EU (which require high bureaucracy), new sm> division (FTF), the problems with the IT department (server sm> crashes and slowness of fsfe.org), the resignation of the Head of sm> Office ... you name it. Yes, all these things (and more) are part of our daily life. And yes, an organisation that has grown as rapidly as FSFE will find itself with some challenges as a result of its success. But this has never been different -- FSFE has undergone various adaptation cycles in its history, and this one is no different. In fact, we are in the process of reworking our communication structures internally, and adding a little more formalisation to some processes that have become unwieldy. But we also do not want to over- adapt, as our lean structure is closely related to our efficiency of making use of the funds we have. When I see your list above, most of these issues are either already solved or in the process of being solved. For example: Werner Koch, FSFE's last Head of Office, who only accepted the task as an interim position because noone else stepped up did an amazing job at organising our office in Düsseldorf. He did such a good job that the office is now working extremely efficiently, well and reliable. It provides a very solid basis for the work of Jonas and myself and we have very few requests for direct coordinative work. That office by the way is also seminal in taking care of the EU bureaucracy, which also our interns are partially helping us with -- and so far we have managed to minimise its impact. The office in Zürich is likewise running smoothly, and the Freedom Task Force that is located in it is still young but already one of our most successful projects. It is extremely well-coordinated and getting its work done professionally at a very fast pace. When I get status reports, there is indeed very little for me to improve. I don't know much about the office in Gothenburg, but as offices are concerned, it seems to be running smoothly from what I can see. Same goes for Ciaran's office in Brussels. But since they only need to organise themselves, that is not so surprising. System administration has been identified some months ago as Jonas and myself as one of our bottlenecks, yes, and we have been discussion various strategies on how to address this -- the recent additions to our system-hackers@ are part of that. Solving this and also taking care of the hunger for power of the Fellowship site are issues that we are dealing with at the moment. Likewise for the other internal restructurings that are ongoing, and have been for some time. Much of that will be formalised during the next general assembly which we are currently in the process of planning. Yes, there are -- and always will be -- things to improve. But I don't think that the decision of not giving 2k EUR to a third party (which triggered this discussion) was one of them. Regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org) Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom! (http://www.fsfe.org) What everyone should know about DRM (http://DRM.info)
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