Editing History of BeWelcome (section)

=== October 2006 ===

Since October, HCvol is an official organization, and so submitted to democracy and transparency. A group of 9 worked a lot to set an organization as basis of work in HCvol. They (minus one founder) constitute the first "Board of Directors" (which we call the BoD), whose role is to meet weekly in order to take any needed decision, to organize HCvol so volunteers can work well, and to make sure no abuse takes place. As soon as HCvol will contain a bigger group of volunteers, there will be a General Assembly and a BoD will be elected by HCvol members.

In the middle of the month, there was a (last?) big hesitation. Wasn't the whole project a huge waste? Wasn't there any way to work on a really new project with HCvol, but including HC members?
So the BoD suggested to Veit that HCvol start developing a project on a new site (new website) but that the [[Hospitality Club]] database be shared. In exchange HCvol members would help maintaning the [http://www.hospitalityclub.org| Hospitality Club site] for a limited period of time. So the HCvol site would have been like a test site, a new site, which [[Hospitality Club]] members could have used if they wanted. It would have been difficult technically, but possible.
After lots of hours of discussions one of the HCvol BoD members told Veit about that idea. Well, we understand why he refuses, but for the members, however, we would have liked that compromise.