<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448459092963_15965">Kate's and Blake's emails give the right perspective on this thread.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448459092963_15965"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448459092963_15965" dir="ltr">I only wanted to clarify, I've never been employed or contracted by HOT, nor have any intentions for that in the future. I was among the founding Board Members of HOT, and a current Voting Member. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448459092963_15965" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448459092963_15965" dir="ltr">I am also among the founding Board Members of OSMF, and a current Member :).</div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448459092963_15964"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1448459092963_16050">* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 7:05 PM, Matt Sidor <seadour@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9635451755"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv9635451755gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9635451755gmail_quote"><div class="yiv9635451755yqt3877829467" id="yiv9635451755yqtfd04071"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:37 PM Michael Reichert <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:nakaner@gmx.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:nakaner@gmx.net">nakaner@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div><blockquote class="yiv9635451755gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv9635451755yqt3877829467" id="yiv9635451755yqtfd64262">Reading your mail I have got the impression that HOT US Inc. is a<br clear="none">
business nowadays. Is that right? If it were so, that would mean that a<br clear="none">
HOT majority is as bad as if four board members would be employed at one<br clear="none">
and the same company.</div><br clear="none"></blockquote><div><div class="yiv9635451755gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"></div><div class="yiv9635451755gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">I think it's actually a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation, if that makes any difference.</font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">More info here:</font><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team</a><br clear="none"></font><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S._Articles_of_Incorporation">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S._Articles_of_Incorporation</a><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9635451755gmail_default" style=""><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9635451755gmail_default" style="">To me, this seems a lot different from, say, four board members employed by Mapbox. Am I wrong to think this way?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">/matt sidor</div><div class="yiv9635451755yqt3877829467" id="yiv9635451755yqtfd36979"><br clear="none"> </div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt3877829467" id="yqtfd72033">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">osmf-talk mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>