<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hmm, yup, I had forgotten about it specifically. I'm really ok with either, as long as we can keep it focused and structured. </span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, February 14, 2014 11:11 AM, Russell Deffner <russell.deffner@hotosm.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top:
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#yiv6095005775 </style><div><div class="yiv6095005775WordSection1"><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Mikel, we had previously been working here: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://hackpad.com/HOT-Bylaws-Amendments-D5EU34qgHYu">https://hackpad.com/HOT-Bylaws-Amendments-D5EU34qgHYu</a> - lots of good stuff on these topics that was consolidated from all our other google docs, etc.</span></div><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">If you’d like help moving everything to the wiki, we can do that; but it may be easier to continue using the hackpad.</span></div><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">=Russ</span></div><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv6095005775yqt1057937207" id="yiv6095005775yqt91724"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Mikel Maron [mailto:mikel_maron@yahoo.com] <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 14, 2014 9:01 AM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Severin Menard; hot@openstreetmap.org<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [HOT] Nominations for HOT Chair of the voting members and Board are open</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal"> </div><div><div id="yiv6095005775yui_3_13_0_ym1_11_1392390502077_12"><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">> Thanks for pointing out these unclear aspects in the bylaws, would be good to modify them so that there is no
confusion. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div id="yiv6095005775yui_3_13_0_ym1_11_1392390502077_12"><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv6095005775yui_3_13_0_ym1_11_1392390502077_12"><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">Yes, definitely, one of the top priorities for this year will be to address the gaps in the bylaws, to clarify and make them more in line for the kind of organization we wish HOT to be. The Membership Code process and other discussions have brought many items to the surface.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div id="yiv6095005775yui_3_13_0_ym1_11_1392390502077_12"><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div
id="yiv6095005775yui_3_13_0_ym1_11_1392390502077_12"><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;">As a start, let's begin by documenting issues in the Bylaws. I've started this wiki page, with some description, and added a single starting issue as a template. Please contribute here!</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div id="yiv6095005775yui_3_13_0_ym1_11_1392390502077_12"><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv6095005775yui_3_13_0_ym1_11_1392390502077_12"><div class="yiv6095005775MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S._Bylaws/2014_Bylaws_Review">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S._Bylaws/2014_Bylaws_Review</a></span><span
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* +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>