[HOT] Draft Articles of Incorporation/Bylaws

[Todd Huffman]

I'm in line with Robert's thoughts "Thanks for doing this Kate, they
look solid to my non-expert eyes."

I've got no strong feelings about the tiered membership, but we might
want to offer an incentive for people to put in more resources.

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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
> I updated the Bylaws and the Incorporation Documents to just have one
> class of membership.
>
> Does anyone have any additional feedback?
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S._Bylaws
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S._Articles_of_Incorporation
>
> If this plan looks okay the first thing we would do would be have
> those that have deployed as part of the loose HOT organization
> nominate and vote in additional members.  We would then have a board
> election and then incorporate.
>
> -Kate
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> I think that we could probably incorporate in the U.S. and then figure
>> out how to create a reciprocal relationship between the U.S. and
>> European organizations.  It wouldn't hurt to get the how the
>> organizations would interact figured out, but I don't think it needs
>> to hold up incorporation.
>>
>> Honestly it was perhaps me over thinking things with the tiered
>> membership.  I was thinking we would want to have a method of getting
>> new people in, though I suppose people being non-members and then
>> joining works just the same as having two levels. It probably greatly
>> simplifies things just to have one type of membership.
>>
>> -Kate
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Robert Soden <robert.soden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for doing this Kate, they look solid to my non-expert eyes.  Is the plan to incorporate in D.C. asap or are there still things we need to figure out related to incorporating in Europe and how to structure the org?
>>>
>>> No strong feelings about membership, but what's the reasoning for the tiered approach? I'm trying to come up with an example where we'd want someone in as a member but not want them to deploy?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Kate Chapman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Hotties!
>>>>
>>>> I drew up some quick Bylaws and Articles of Incorporation we could use
>>>> to incorporation as a non-profit corporation that would eventually
>>>> have tax exempt status in the U.S.  We were thinking our EU bylaws
>>>> would be very similar but of course have the necessary legal country
>>>> specific changes.
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S._Bylaws
>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S._Articles_of_Incorporation
>>>>
>>>> I've incorporated 2 non-profits in the District of Columbia so I
>>>> modeled it somewhat after that.
>>>>
>>>> We weren't really sure how to do membership, what is up there is just
>>>> a suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what you think.
>>>>
>>>> -Kate
>>>>
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