[Foundation-l] Board statement of responsibility
Jimmy Wales
jwales at wikia.com
Sun May 18 19:44:01 UTC 2008
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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