Thank you, Jaakko. Mikel, thank you again for all your support in building HOT. We look forward to your ongoing leadership as a member and alumni.
Thank you, Heather Heather Leson [email protected] Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Jaakko Helleranta / Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > The approaching year's end and the beginning of a new one marks also a > turning of page for the HOT Board as our co-founder and long time board > president Mikel Maron has resigned from the board. The remaining board > acknowledged his resignation in our meeting on Tuesday. > > Mikel resigned after an ethics review of his role as a Presidential > Innovation Fellowship (1) found potential for conflict of interest with his > role on the HOT Board that could potentially benefit or be perceived to > benefit HOT unduly. The review process took a bit longer than expected > because of the open source nature of HOT's work. > > With this change we have lost an excellent resource on the board but the > good is that Mikel will continue with his fellowship advancing the use of > OpenStreetMap in broader contexts. He is also planning to continue to be an > active member of HOT and continue to participate in the activites that he > has been involved with outside of the board responsibilities. > > We are sorry to see Mikel leave the board and personally as well as on > behalf of the rest of the board I want to thank him for his extensive > service in creating and building HOT over the years. > > After acknowledging Mikel's resignation the (remaining) board discussed > possible actions needed after this. I also discussed the matter with the > voting members chair Russ Deffner. Both the board and Russ and I came to > the conclusion that given the approaching Annual Meeting of the voting > members in March there is no material beneft in electing a fill-in member > for the board for the barely three months. Russ and I had already discussed > before this resignation was known that we should rather prepare to have > solid annual meeting with appropriately set election council, etc. > > If you have any questions particular to this change please feel welcome to > contact me or the Board. > > With best regards on behalf of the board, > -Jaakko > > (1) > http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2014-09-15_mikel_maron_chosen_as_a_presidential_innovation_fellow > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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