Thanks for this Martjin: this would be most helpful in that context on top of the practices within HOT US.
Best, Nicolas On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > 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 it was last updated, since this information can obviously go out of date.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 > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- Nicolas Chavent Projet OpenStreetMap (OSM) Projet Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Projet Espace OSM Francophone (EOF) Mobile (FRA): +33 (0)6 52 40 78 20 <nicolas.chav...@hotosm.org> Email: nicolas.chav...@gmail.com Skype: c_nicolas Twitter: nicolas_chavent
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