[HOT] suggestion for HOT Board vote

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Floris,

There was an announcement a while back on the mailing list.  The first
part of it was a new round of membership nominations.  Sorry I didn't
make another one midprocess, things have gone slower than I hoped.  We
are voting for single new board seat to replace Robert Soden.  The
reason being that when Robert took a job at the World Bank him being
on our board and at World Bank employee is against the ethics rules.
Rather HOT could not work on World Bank contracts then.

The way voting works is you have to be a member of the HOT
organizational membership to run for the board or to be nominated.
The way to become a member of HOT is to be nominated by an already
existing member.  The original members were nominated by Mikel, Dane,
Nicolas, Robert and myself.

All this is outlined in our Bylaws:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S._Bylaws

Sorry for the confusion.

-Kate




On 7/17/11, Floris Looijesteijn <osm at floris.nu> wrote:
> Are we voting for a new board? Where's the announcement of that?
> I probably missed it but I don't see anything on the HOT website either?
>
> Greetings,
> Floris Looijesteijn
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Schuyler Erle <schuyler at nocat.net> wrote:
>> Hey gang,
>>
>> If you haven't cast your ballot for the HOT Board of Directors yet, I
>> would like to encourage you to consider this, briefly:
>>
>> There is no question whatsoever that all three nominees for board
>> positions are eminently qualified to represent HOT, and would be valuable
>> additions to the Board of Directors, however -- our board already has a
>> preponderance of Americans.
>>
>> I mention this primarily because we, as HOT, have to deal with a
>> humanitarian aid community -- and particularly that part within the UN
>> system -- that is sometimes suspicious of Americans. We are sometimes
>> perceived, regrettably, as having a tendency to try to take over and run
>> the whole show, whatever the show is. Now, you all know as well as I do
>> that the Americans involved in HOT are sensitive to political nuance, and
>> do strive to be suitably respectful of our colleagues in other
>> organizations, regardless of nationality. The problem isn't with the
>> HOTties -- it's with the possible perception of HOT from *outside* our
>> group.
>>
>> I believe that it is of the utmost importance to the future of the
>> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team that the organization is NOT perceived by
>> others as primarily an American initiative. We are a group with a
>> genuinely international character, and the rest of the world should see us
>> as such.
>>
>> Therefore I will tell you that I am voting for Harry Wood for the
>> available directorship. Harry is at least as qualified, as skilled, and as
>> committed as anyone else who has been nominated -- and he has the
>> advantage of being from someplace other than the US. I know that he will
>> continue to be an asset to our organization as a director on our board,
>> and I hope that you will elect him to this role.
>>
>> Yours truly,
>>
>> An American.
>>
>>
>>
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