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Select Board of Directors #1

Open agilous opened 10 years ago

agilous commented 10 years ago

Premise

[1]: Corporate sponsorships will cost $5,000/year. [2]: Bill Barnett will serve as the first Executive Director of QCMerge and will serve for a term of two years. [3]: Individual sponsorships will cost $100/year and entitle the individual to part-time coworking privileges and discounts on events.

queso commented 10 years ago

Are these ideas more finalized, or are you looking for comment here?

agilous commented 10 years ago

@queso What you see is all there is and everything is open for comment and discussion.

queso commented 10 years ago

Ok,

My thoughts here are that only having a board made up of "Corporate Sponsors" made lead to diluted decision making... Perhaps we purposely reserve a board seat for someone from the startup scene to be elected on? Also, what about a community voted spot? I do think the individual spots probably come close to it, but my worry is $5k is too steep for people that might care more and too cheap for those that have less interest in pushing the community forward in a positive way.

These thoughts stem from working near other "Corporately sponsors" entities, happy to share them in person :)

agilous commented 10 years ago

@queso According to the outlined plan, two seats are reserved for individual members. The cost of individual membership is $100/year. So it's not clear to me whether I'm missing something with regard to your comments.

queso commented 10 years ago

I guess what I am saying is that I am not sure it is a good idea to have people buy their way onto a board for a non-profit... I get that donors are needed and should have input, I am just speaking from experience of watching a "watered down agenda" come from similar non-profits in the city.

agilous commented 10 years ago

Currently, there's no way to buy your way onto the board but you can buy your way onto the ballot. This point is moot if we don't have more than 10 corporate and two individual members when we elect the board.

Playing devil's advocate a bit, why wouldn't it be beneficial to have the most actively engaged corporations involved in the formative years of QCM?

This still leaves the issue of the two individual member seats unresolved. Those would be more highly contested I would imagine.

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I guess what I am saying is that I am not sure it is a good idea to have people buy their way onto a board for a non-profit... I get that donors are needed and should have input, I am just speaking from experience of watching a "watered down agenda" come from similar non-profits in the city.

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ryw commented 10 years ago

I agree w/ Bill on this — it's not unreasonable that the people who put money up (and therefore care about the initiative) should control of it.

queso commented 10 years ago

Perhaps it is more the price point that is sticking out in my mind. Perhaps we have one seat set aside for a "startup" level sponsorship? I know $5k will seem steep to some startups, even ones with a series A nailed down.

agilous commented 10 years ago

I'm not opposed to a "startup" seat to be taken from those set aside for corporate sponsors but my assumption was that startups would be represented in the individual membership ranks, a much lower cost but with a "proportionally" reduced chance of election.

On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Josh Owens notifications@github.com wrote:

Perhaps it is more the price point that is sticking out in my mind. Perhaps we have one seat set aside for a "startup" level sponsorship? I know $5k will seem steep to some startups, even ones with a series A nailed down.

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