Board of Directors Invitation Letters
1/12/14
Dear Sunny, Colby, Alicia, and Joshua,
Welcome to OSE and thank you all for agreeing to serve on OSE's Board of Directors.
I would like to ask you if you are all available for our first meeting this Friday, Jan. 16. Would 1 or 5 PM CST work for you? If not, then Monday next week at the same time?
- Please send me a bio as you would like to appear on the OSE website and wiki. See our old Board of Directors as a template. So I ask:
Bio
- Support Statement in the form: "x's role on the Board is to provide his/her expertise in _________ to_______(how this furthers OSE's mission)"
- Picture (200x200 pixels or larger)
- If you can make the first meeting
Thanks, Marcin
1/14
Dear Joshua,
In the immediate future, Open Source Ecology will be appointing new members to its Board of Directors. As a leading figure of the Open Source Appropriate Technology movement, you have demonstrated a visible commitment and ethical leadership in furthering the goals of the budding open source hardware movement. Because of your commitment, we are requesting you to give serious consideration to joining our Board. The process would involve our current Board voting on your acceptance. The term of office will be one year, with evaluation after that period, with intent to continue your position pending satisfactory service.
The next several years promise to be exciting ones for OSE, as we continue the development of the Global Village Construction Set. Last year, we have received our charitable 501(c)3 status from the IRS. This year, we have developed a revenue model for sustaining OSE independent from foundation funding - in the form of our open hardware, Extreme Manufacturing workshops. Our goals for next year include scaling this model by adding a layer of deep immersion training for future developers. This is consistent with our goals of creating the open source economy. Our overall goal is to develop a generalized, open source product development methodology that any individual or company can use to solve problems faster than they are created.
The Board of Directors will play a central role in this important work. Because of your experience and involvement in the open source community, we feel you are well qualified to be nominated for a board position - and to protect the integrity of OSE's open source ethic. As you consider this opportunity, we ask you review the board director position description at http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors_Role_Description.
A primary responsibility of board directors is to participate in the development of policy and major decision-making at board meetings held at least 2 times a year. Another key responsibility is to be active on an ongoing basis in a committee of the board - the requirement is 1 hour per month. This year, board nominees will be asked to make that committee commitment before they are voted onto the board.
If you wish to be considered as a candidate for the Board of Directors, please respond to affirm. We are planning our first meeting of the year in January, when we will orient new Board members.
Sincerely,
Marcin Jakubowski OSE ED Designated Director
12/14
http://www.oshwa.org/about/our-team/
Dear Alicia,
I have brought up an invitation to serve on Open Source Ecology's Board of Directors at the 2013 Open Hardware Summit, and I would like to follow up on this.
In the immediate future, Open Source Ecology will be appointing 1 or 2 members to its Board. As the director of the Open Source Hardware Association, you have demonstrated a visible commitment and ethical leadership in furthering the goals of the budding open source hardware movement. Because of your commitment, we are requesting you to give serious consideration to joining our Board. The process would involve our current Board voting on your acceptance. The term of office will be one year, with evaluation after that period, with intent to continue your position pending satisfactory service.
The next several years promise to be exciting ones for OSE, as we continue the development of the Global Village Construction Set. Last year, we have received our charitable 501(c)3 status from the IRS. This year, we have developed a revenue model for sustaining OSE independent from foundation funding - in the form of our open hardware, Extreme Manufacturing workshops. Our goals for next year include scaling this model by adding a layer of deep immersion training for future developers. This is consistent with our goals of creating a culture of open, collaborative development as an accelerated route to innovation. Our overall goal is to develop a generalized, open source product development methodology that any individual or company can use to solve problems faster than they are created.
The Board of Directors will play a central role in this important work. Because of your experience and involvement in the open source community, we feel you are well qualified to be nominated for a board position - and to protect the integrity of OSE's open source ethic. As you consider this opportunity, we ask you review the board director position description at http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors_Role_Description.
A primary responsibility of board directors is to participate in the development of policy and major decision-making at board meetings held at least 2 times a year. Another key responsibility is to be active on an ongoing basis in a committee of the board. This year, board nominees will be asked to make that committee commitment before they are voted onto the board.
If you wish to be considered as a candidate for the Board of Directors, please respond to affirm. Our first meeting of the year will be in January, when we will orient new Board members.
Sincerely,
Marcin Jakubowski OSE ED Designated Director
12/14
www.sunnybates.com
www.redthread.is
Dear Sunny,
I have brought up an invitation to serve on Open Source Ecology's Board of Directors at TED Global in Rio, and I would like to follow up on this. In the immediate future, Open Source Ecology will be appointing 1 or 2 members to its Board. As a leader in the TED community and a curator of disruption, we are requesting you to give serious consideration to joining our Board. The process would involve our current Board voting on your acceptance. The term of office will be one year, with evaluation after that period, with intent to continue your position pending satisfactory service.
The next several years promise to be exciting ones for OSE, as we continue the development of the Global Village Construction Set. Last year, we have received our charitable 501(c)3 status from the IRS. This year, we have developed a revenue model for sustaining OSE independent from foundation funding - in the form of our open hardware, Extreme Manufacturing workshops. Our goals for next year include scaling this model by adding a layer of deep immersion training for future developers. This is consistent with our goals of creating a culture of open, collaborative development as an accelerated route to innovation. Our overall goal is to develop a generalized, open source product development methodology that any individual or company can use to solve problems faster than they are created.
The Board of Directors will play a central role in this important work. Because of your experience and involvement in the entrepreneurship community, your masterful skill of weaving relationships, and your support of open source in general, we feel you are well qualified to be nominated for a board position. As you consider this opportunity, we ask you review the board director position description at http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors_Role_Description.
A primary responsibility of board directors is to participate in the development of policy and major decision-making at board meetings held at least 2 times a year. Another key responsibility is to be active on an ongoing basis in a committee of the board. Board nominees will be asked to make that committee commitment before they are voted onto the board.
If you wish to be considered as a candidate for the Board of Directors, please respond to affirm. Our first meeting of the year will be in January, when we will orient new Board members.
Sincerely,
Marcin Jakubowski
OSE ED
Designated Director
