Re: [Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:29 AM, SteveC wrote: > I think that for your own good so it's not a surprise to people, all those > running for the board of OSMF-US should be upfront about it. I don't think > there's any shame in it, but I can tell you from experience that people get > very upset if

Re: [Talk-us] US Chapter temporary Board Nomination

2010-02-12 Thread Dane Springmeyer
Along with a great group of nominees, I'm also honored to accept the nomination for the temporary board of the US chapter of the OSM Foundation. As a temporary board member I would be committed to work on the the processes, organizing, and paperwork that is needed to jump start the US Chap

Re: [Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread Steven Johnson
Hello all, If I haven't made it clear in the past, I'll make it unambiguous now: I work for Traverse Technologies as a IT services contractor, largely for Federal clients. Like many of you, we do have a geospatial service offering. Although we work with many flavors of data and stripes of software

[Talk-us] SCALE OpenStreetMap booth in LA next weekend

2010-02-12 Thread SteveC
Hi Want to help promote OSM and happen to live in or be in LA? We have a booth at SCALE http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/ Weekend 20/21 Feb. For helping, you get a warm fizzy feeling and entry to the conference and tshirts and stuff. Ping me if you can help out. Yours &c. Stev

Re: [Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I work as an employee to a subcontractor at the National Library of Medicine, under the National Institutes of Health. We don't have any stake in any geo-technologies as far as I know- that is neither my direct employer (IS Mavens) nor our customer. Of course now (by NIH requirements) I'm require

Re: [Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread Kate Chapman
Hey All, I'm usually pretty up front about the fact that I work for FortiusOne. It was an oversight with announcing my acceptance that I didn't mention it. FortiusOne uses OSM tiles on our public site http://www.geocommons.com as well as the appliances. I personally maintain an open source geoc

Re: [Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:29 AM, SteveC wrote: > Hi > > One of the things we found at the OSMF is that you really need to be open > about any potential conflicts of interest, like where you work or if you > hold shares in TeleAtlas... that kind of thing. Anything a reasonable > outsider could co

Re: [Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/12/10 11:29 AM, SteveC wrote: > Hi > > One of the things we found at the OSMF is that you really need to be open > about any potential conflicts of interest, like where you work or if you hold > shares in TeleAtlas... that kind of thing. Anything a reasonable outsider > could conclude is a

[Talk-us] Conflicts of Interest

2010-02-12 Thread SteveC
Hi One of the things we found at the OSMF is that you really need to be open about any potential conflicts of interest, like where you work or if you hold shares in TeleAtlas... that kind of thing. Anything a reasonable outsider could conclude is a potential conflict. I think that for your own