[HOT] Draft Articles of Incorporation/Bylaws

[Mark Iliffe]

That's an good idea, do you know who is organising the European cohort?

Mark
On 15 Jul 2010, at 10:51, Kate Chapman wrote:

> The reason I put the United States in was because we were going to
> have a European organization as well.   I believe we would have issues
> with official names if we had the same one even if we were operating
> in different countries.  We would registered Humanitarian
> OpenStreetMap Team as an name we are operating under though.
> 
> -Kate
> 
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Todd Huffman <huffmantm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm in line with Robert's thoughts "Thanks for doing this Kate, they
>>> look solid to my non-expert eyes."
>> 
>> The bylaws look good to me. It's good to see progress towards formalising
>> HOT.
>> 
>> For the name of the organisation, "Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team United
>> States, Inc.", do we really need "United States" as part of the name?
>> 
>> In Article II, I would change:
>> 
>> * Deploy to ... => Deploying to
>> * Coordinate => Coordinating
>> * Provide => Providing
>> * Advocate => Advocating
>> 
>> in Article IV:
>> 
>> "The elected initial board that will incorporate HOT and serve a one year
>> term as its board of directors."
>> 
>> change to:
>> 
>> "The elected initial board of directors will incorporate HOT and serve a one
>> year term."
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> 
>> Otherwise, they look good.
>> 
>> -Katie
>> 
>>> 
>>> Todd Huffman
>>> 
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>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Katie Filbert
>> filbertk at gmail.com
>> @filbertkm
>> 
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