The OSM US board has just agreed on a COI policy that was prepared by a legal expert. I can see if I can get you a copy if that would help?
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Harry Wood <m...@harrywood.co.uk> wrote: > > I believe conflicts should be handled in the follow 2 basic ways. > > > > 1. Potential conflicts should be talked about and acknowledged well > > before any actual conflicts arise. > > 2. Board members should completely recuse themselves from any > > conversation. They should not listen to or be a part of the conversation > > during any activities where a conflict exist. > > > > Yep. Those are the rules. It's quite difficult to follow if the topic > about which you have a conflict of interest, is something coming up a lot > in board discussions. So in your case Dale, if the board were needing to > discuss ARC a lot, then you might have to recuse yourself a lot. That's a > bit awkward but not impossible. > > We found it very difficult in the past having HOT paid staff members on > the board, particularly as they didn't always seem to understand and accept > these rules. I guess it was understandable that they wanted to take > strategic decisions about the projects and parts of the organisation which > most effected them and their (HOT staff) work. > > Can be tricky. > > > > As such I'll be posting my conflicts to the Board Election Wiki > > and encourage others to do the same. > > > I called mine a "Declaration of interests" and linked it off my user page > rather than off the elections wiki (but that's partly because, I was *on* > the board when I wrote it. Also it serves just as well as a declaration for > anyone looking at me as a OSMF CWG member) > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Harry_Wood/Declaration_of_Interests > > Maybe that's useful as a template. Direct financial interests (who pays > you) is the most important thing for people to be aware of, but I tried to > think of other affiliations I have which might conflict. I also noted when > it was last updated, since this information can obviously go out of date. > > Harry > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- Martijn van Exel skype: mvexel
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