And we are drifting off-topic...so, I will bring us back.
I had a revelation last night regarding openness. My fundamental assumption about what went bad on TORC is not that there were bad people there that spoiled it. There were, and probably are, still bad people there, but that's not TORC's issue. The structure is--the top-down, this is my house, or vinyard, or whatever metaphor is active this week, and what I say goes, you're all replacable parts and the vision is everything attitude structure. Bad structures turn good people bad. That's my theory, and if I am to prove it, and prove that good founders, with a good attitude and a good structure will keep a board good, there's only one way to do it.
Open the doors and let them in. "Bad eggs" will turn up, but they would anyway, eventually. Hell,
I could go bad, if the wrong combination of things happened.
When that happens, we will have the mechanisms to deal with it RIGHT, and FAIRLY, and OPENLY.
And if it turns out my theory was wrong, all it means is that message boards are doomed to this cycle. No loss.
I hereby withdraw my objections to opening the boards. However, I do think that the people presently on the "we would like to invite list" should be talked to before a grand opening, and that the grand opening wait until we DO have the structures and strictures in place.