> On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:55 AM Steve Coast <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 1, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Paul Norman <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/1/2016 12:22 AM, Greg Morgan wrote:
> >> I would think that the US Board should add another board member to be a
> >> communications manager. I now understand why corporations have paid staff
> >> that do nothing but manage all these communication options.
> >
> > Why would this need to be a board member as opposed to another volunteer
> > managing communications without being a board member?
>
> Because volunteers tend to be terrible at doing work that isn’t fun.
>
> Good thing board members are paid, then! Oh, wait ;)
Being on the board has a bunch of prestige and you can leverage it in to a job
and VC money. Being an unpaid guy answering 1,000 emails a day on “what is a
map?” has fewer benefits.
> Seriously, I'm with Paul- a designated group of volunteers who actually
> enjoys and wants to do this would create a lot of value. (Casually engaged
> people like me would get a lot out of it.)
I completely agree, which is why we tried it before. It’s just very hard
compared to just paying people.
Steve
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