<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 1:16 PM Paul Norman <<a href="mailto:paul.norman@osmfoundation.org">paul.norman@osmfoundation.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><blockquote type="cite">
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<p>I support not having more than one board member from the same
organization. It's probably not practical to make this an AoA
requirement.</p></div></blockquote><div>I'd like to explore what this means. For example is it membership in the organization, employment, a directorship? </div><div><br></div><div>At the moment both HOT and FOSSGIS have multiple people that are members of their organization on the board. There are not board members that work for the same company or have directorships on the same board of the same organization. There was a brief period where two of us were both contracting with the Wikimedia Foundation at the same time. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In my own case. Yes, I've done humanitarian work, though HOT was actually my only humanitarian job. If I resign my HOT membership am I then considered unaffilitated? I'm also a member of OSGeo, I'm not sure if any of the rest of the board are also members of that. Are there board members that share memberships in other organizations as well? I could see there being cross over in some not mapping technical orgs as well. </div><div><br></div><div>-Kate</div><div><br></div><div>(The reason I do not say HOT US Inc. is I'm the one that incorporated the paperwork years ago. That name was used actually to make it easier for there to be incorporations in other countries. So in the attempt to be more inclusive instead the name has been waved around to divide people.)</div><div> </div></div></div>