<div dir="ltr">I thought this was worth having its own discussion. <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Simon Poole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch" target="_blank">simon@poole.ch</a>></span> wrote<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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PS: there is the other problem that why on earth would you want to
pay the board first? Surely you would want to pay the people on the
OWG, DWG and LWG before the directors, given they are actually core
to operations not the board, unluckily that would probably amount to
a couple of million just for starters.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Yes, I'd pay quite a few people prior to paying the board. Some of the things the board does are much more operational items than what a truely strategic board would do. To me if we were to start paying people to do those things we would hire someone to do it rather than pay ourselves. Dorothea over the past year has helped immensely in this way, so there already is a precedent. </div><div><br></div><div>-Kate</div></div></div></div>