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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 12.12.2018 um 12:23 schrieb
      Christoph Hormann:</div>
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      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Regarding the idea of Tobias for a one board member per organization 
quota - this certainly would not hurt but i have my doubts about how 
much effect this would have because as indicated above people just 
resigning their HOT membership would not really change anything in 
substance. </pre>
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    <p>I don't think that would help much as that assumes that
      organisations will not collaborate on sector specific goals. In
      any case, just that we don't go through the whole HOT story again,
      see my take here (and the whole thread for some more background):
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    <p>See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2017-December/004735.html">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2017-December/004735.html</a>
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    <p>Historically I believe the obligation for HOT members to <br>
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