[HOT] Board Elections: another Personal Opinion

[Kate Chapman]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:45 AM, nicolas chavent
<nicolas.chavent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kate wrote a beautiful blog post about HOT achievements in 2012 at a time
> when two paid employees were boardees. Was this a problem for our
> organization? Did this question the legitimacy of HOT amongst hum/ dev
> actors and donors? Why would this situation be all of sudden different in
> 2013 when clearly our organization is gradually growing and getting more
> robust and mature..

Actually people have repeatedly emailed me off list and said they did
not think it was appropriate for employees to also be on the board of
directors. This began after the HOT strategic meeting last year when
the decision to pay you and I stipends was made. It is not that the
situation it is different, it is that we were acting incorrectly
before. I've since done research, I would suggest others do their own
research. Additionally within the membership survey there as a not
insignificant amount of people that indicated they did not think that
paid people should be on the board.

I find it ironic that if we had incorporated in France it would be
impossible for anyone to be on the board who was also compensated by
the organization. So had you known how to do the incorporation
paperwork instead of I we would not be even having this discussion.

-Kate