>From a mobile phone on my way back to base. Do not get me wrong on this one: i am holding the current situation as not satisfactory with rrespect to where I would like the organozation to be in 1 or 2 years time when sufficient field exprtise the hot way on the ground and the ways hum workers are workimng on the ground will be emboddied in many hotties. This is what you, me, all are striving for ; this has been my inner priority through the developement of our operations on the ground, the opportunities to do field work for hotties, my constant behind the scene support to the remote activations, my work with interns trainees, my work within the academics in france and senegal/ chad and attention and support to all overseas mappers willing and interested. Through training/ mentroing and work more hotties will get there. Through extension of memberships as per the rules and definitoions that we will all contrinute to set up in the first 4 months of 2013, we will have other people joining with this background. I'll be then comfrtable stepping away, letting others leading as boardees and be available for this Organization that Mikel and I ideated in 2007. As one can read from my profile I supported the hot ideas while working in the UN when this was not mainstream at all, quite the opposite. I fought for this and acted in a way which made me decide to give up a carreer in the UN for helping creating what I believed was vital and uncovereed by the UN system at that time, HOT that is. I therefore have in minds and at heart the future of this Organization that we co-founded. I think we only disagree on the timing for this shift: the time is not right there for the reasons I laid out. Field not approprpiately represented, predominance of anglo saxon cultures and in your board over representation ot IT people (which I admire and treasure but who are a big part but still a part of what i believe the neeeded talents for hot are).
Side note, I would entirely disagree to have non hot members boardees and feel hyper strongly that the path to a boardee shall be paved with being active with hot as a volunteer first, then as a member and then as a boardee. Non hotties can support as volunteers and then as advisors of this board we will create The above are perhaps to be pasted in another email thread for our actions/reflexions in the next months. Off to station- Ciao to all Nico Le 15 janv. 2013 06:19, "Kate Chapman" <k...@maploser.com> a écrit : On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:45 AM, nicolas chavent <nicolas.chav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kate wrote a ... 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
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