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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:59 PM Aaron Bauman <bman@g.o> wrote: |
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> Additionally, the new by-laws would *legally* hold trustees accountable |
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> for failure in due diligence. Of course, that will probably slim down |
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> the pool of available individuals willing to run for the seats. |
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> Conversely, it will stop people just keeping seats warm. |
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That sounds nice in theory, but unless you're willing to pay a |
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professional board the only people you're going to get manning the |
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ship are those too incompetent to realize what they're signing up for. |
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And considering that we can't really even fully man the current |
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Foundation, how do we think that driving off volunteers is going to |
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improve things? |
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I'm also not really sure to what degree bylaws could actually create |
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more liability for board members when New Mexico law tries to minimize |
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this sort of liability. |
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The Foundation is really a product of the community. If anybody |
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actually cared that much about properly running a non-profit then we'd |
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have enough volunteers to do the work, and we'd have a good selection |
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of candidates for the board so that voting can be used to hold people |
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to account. If we have incompetent board members I think that says |
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more about the community than the individuals trying to do something |
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to make things better. |
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Now, there are certainly professionals who could do the job well and |
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who would probably be willing to do so under any reasonable liability |
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requirements. There are law firms that even specialize in these sorts |
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of things. However, you're not going to be able to just give them |
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Gentoo T-shirts as their sole compensation. |
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I think we have to acknowledge that we as a community don't really |
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care that much to keep a non-profit running, and honestly I'm not sure |
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I can think of a reason why we really should care. I think we're best |
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served by minimizing our dependence on spending money in the first |
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place, and if we must do it just use an umbrella that specializes in |
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such things. |
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Rich |
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