[Foundation-l] Board statement of responsibility

[Jimmy Wales]

I can confirm all this.  We had a draft agreement for discussion 
purposes is all.

Mike Godwin wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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