Hi all, hi Simon, Am 30.10.22 um 13:16 schrieb Simon Phipps:
(...)If you have a look into the statutes of TDF you'll find out that it is necessary that at least the half of the board could attend the meeting. The half of the board are four members. Thus the board is not quorate and could not decide on this topic. This is not so; all of these five directors are free to participate if they believe they should and there is no breach of trust on their part. *Having an interest to declare is not the same as having a /conflict/ of interest* no matter how often the implication is made that having an interest is disqualifying. If all of these directors believe their employers' interests - which are clearly well understood - can be held in balance with their personal elected role at TDF then the onus is on an accuser to demonstrate why it is impossible for them to balance their work life and private life in this case.
sorry for beeing a bit undiplomatic on this topic. But your statements are not in accordance with the CoI policy of TDF. And if you would have had a look into the document from the European Commision that was linked by Paolo, you would know that you look onto this topic is not appropriate for member states of the European Union. It has not be proofed that a member of the board _has_ a CoI. It's sufficient that he may have a CoI (potential). And if your company is involved with the development and marketing/sale of Collabora Online you have at least a potential CoI within LOOL and its future. And I'm being very reluctant with speaking only of a potential CoI this time. Others wouldn't formulate that reluctant.
So far I have not seen any attempt by anyone to demonstrate why all these five directors are in breach of trust over the well-understood interests. I suggest you do so before you repeat calls to exclude elected directors from TDF's business.
Maybe you look into the European Commission document, linked by Paolo in an earlier post, you'd get the complete knowledge on the topic within countries of the European Union, like the one of TDF's home. Regards, Andreas -- ## Free Software Advocate ## Plone add-on developer ## My blog: http://www.amantke.de/blog -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
