On 22/10/2022 12:32, Chris Sherlock
wrote:
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 8:24 PM Andreas Mantke <maand@xxxxxx> wrote:
it would have been great, if you'd explained that you are working for
the company which forked away from LibreOffice Online
(https://www.documentfoundation.org/gethelp/developers/).
Thus you have on this specific topic (the online version of LibreOffice
and the work on that project) a (potential?) CoI.
Sorry to butt in again, but Noel has never made it unclear he works for Collabora. I don't believe there is any undisclosed conflict of interest.
if Noel were a member of the board then declaring the personal interests, which could turn into potential/perceive CoIs when the subject is discussed, would be the right thing to do. That's at least is the outcome of the lengthy discussions we had about the subject and we start seeing it applied.
That reminds me there should have probably been a declaration of personal interests in regards to Collabora Online by the members of the board affiliated with the vendor and its reseller as the investigation related to potential personal interests related to LibreOffice Online was in the agenda. So it seems we still need to work on consistent procedures for interests declarations.
I suppose that once that investigation is sorted the board will look at the potential issue of having people with personal interests in a subject investigating a director for a subject that is seen by the same directors as being in competition with their personal interest.
Ciao
Chris
Paolo
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