[Foundation-l] Board statement of responsibility

[Mike Godwin]

Delirium writes:

> Since several board members expressed surprise at being initially
> presented with the agreement to sign, it seems that did indeed happen.

Just to be clear about this -- the Board has never been given the  
Statement of Obligations and Responsibility until just recently. It  
had not been drafted at the time of the Board meeting.

A different agreement, focused primarily on nondisparagement and  
confidentiality but without any larger detailing of board-member  
obligations, had been presented to the Board but, due to an error  
(possibly my error), the Board received a document that was drafted  
for employees rather than Board members. (I'd drafted a different one  
for the Board, but unaccountably the wrong document was in the Board  
packet.) So there was some surprise that the Board members were being  
addressed by the document as "employees" when in fact that is not what  
they are. Perfectly appropriate for them to be surprised, under the  
circumstances. The resulting discussion led to my being assigned to  
draft a more comprehensive document, which I have only just recently  
circulated.

I don't think there was any surprise about the issue itself, since it  
was on the Board's agenda, and since I was asked to participate in the  
meeting in order to discuss it.


--Mike