Dear HOT Community,
The HOT Membership just concluded its election. Results are on the wiki
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Board_Elections_2014
Below a message just sent to members@. This should be addressed to you all as
well!
Thanks so much
Mikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
On Monday, March 3, 2014 9:21 AM, Mikel Maron <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Members,
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>We have just concluded our membership meeting. We weren't able to obtain a
>quorum, in order to conduct new business, so officially, we simply had
>announcement of the results of the poll. The details will be posted soon by
>Boris, but in case you have not heard, Russell is confirmed as Chair of Voting
>Members, and the elected Board (in order of nomination) is Mikel Maron,
>Heather Leson, Schuyler Erle, Severin Menard, Harry Wood, Claire Halleux and
>Jaakko Helleranta. Congratulations everyone. Thank you everyone who
>participated in the vote and the election process. Thank you all candidates
>for your energy and support. Thank you outgoing members Pierre, Nicolas, and
>Joseph for their contributions to the Board last year, you are invaluable
>community members.
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>This has been a super challenging week for all of us, there's no denying. Even
>so, hugely important issues were raised. More voices were heard from
>membership than at any point in the past. That's so important, thank you. We
>must find more ways to connect with each other across this still big planet.
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>I certainly heard you all, and I'm ready to continue working with everyone.
>For myself, I appreciate your support that has lead to another year for
>serving on the HOT Board. If the Board will have me again, I'd like to
>continue serving as President. I know again, this is going to be hard and time
>consuming and challenging.
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>There will certainly be more soon for everyone. The Board will need to meet,
>but we will want to do it differently. Members are going to have a significant
>role. Let's give ourselves a little space to figure out how everything is
>going to work. This will be a year of listening and growing. We will all be
>challenged by this work, but we need to do this to better serve all the
>communities in which we work, including our own. The opportunity for everyone
>to contribute to this conversation will come soon. We will be organizing
>another try for reaching the quroum of our Annual Meeting next week. I might
>recommend that we take a short breather and reflect on how we can come
>together to shape HOT into the best organization it can be.
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>Thank you!
>Mikel
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>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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