On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/8/26 Anthony <o...@inbox.org>: >> As for the obligations of board members, while they are generally not >> allowed to act in a way which harms the organization of which they are >> a board member, and are not allowed to *use, for personal purposes, >> confidential information* which they obtained via their status as a >> board member > > happy to see that we agree to this. This was actually about board > members paying membership fees to others as "private individuals", not > about them drinking a beer in the pub or driving to SOTM.
I assume you mean paying membership fees *for* others. I see that as quite analogous to driving others to SOTM. Maybe paying for someone else's bus ticket to get to SOTM would be more analogous? >> Furthermore, *even if they were* obligated to act in the best >> interests of the board in everything they do, that *still* would not >> imply that they aren't allowed to sponsor the membership applications >> of selected individuals, i.e. give them money with which to apply for >> membership. > > I think this really depends on the case. If a board member paid as a > private individual membership fees for lots people, and those people > voted then in his sense in OSMF votings this would clearly be a breach > (at least of good faith). How so? It suggests that there *may* have been an act of vote-buying, but it's not *clear* that there was one. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
