Hi, Peter Miller wrote: > Saying 'bombarded' is hardly fair. For the record I email the board on > the 23rd Dec and received no reply. I emailed again on the 8th Jan > requesting a response to my earlier email and threatening to object the > following day. I had a response but it was not clear. I requested > clarification on the 13th (no reply), again on the 17th (no reply) and > so today we objected to the application on about the last day that it > was safe to do so given the deadline of the 21st Jan. I did finally get > a list of applications from the team today but only after we informed > them of our actions. I used that information as the basis of the > TradeMark article to which I referred earlier.
In a variation of the well-known "Hanlon's razor" I'm tempted to assume that rather than deliberately keeping information from you (and the members), the lack of communication might be due to other priorities and/or possibly less-than-well-defined responsibilities, or maybe a lack of professionalism (something that I would not hold against the OSMF board since they haven't to my knowledge ever claimed to be, or were elected on the assumption they are, administration professionals). That being said, I'd hate to think a potential sponsor might ever get the same impression of being neglected that you have! Sometimes in an organziation it is not enough to say who is responsible for which area of business but it may also be required to make sure the others will take over responsibilities (or at least answer E-Mails) if the person in charge is unwilling or unable. I remember there was a guy a few months ago who loudly complained about some E-Mail of his not having been answered by CloudMade, and in return Nick said something along the lines of they're trying but sometimes things get overlooked, and Nick asked for recommendations of suitable ticket systems to deal with inquiries. Maybe CloudMade have investigated this and meanwhile settled on a system, and are willing to share their know-how with the Foundation board so the same software can be used for OSMF business? The advantage would then be that half the board already know how to use it ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
