<p dir="ltr">Good to think about <br>
a) why a company wants to donate anonymously/secretly <br>
b) why people/members want to have transparency </p>
<p dir="ltr">What if donations over £500 were public in WHO donated, but don't need to state how much? <br>
It allows one to spot potential conflicts of interest (and confirm they've been declared) or to question when a company is acting like they've bought certain rights/access. <br>
The value doesn't matter so much(under table deals could be different values anyway) but I can see someone/company wanting to donate as much as they can without a big shout they are the top/2nd/3rd... biggest donor. Of course in some situations you could work it out from published accounts, that's when you want the most transparency anyway. <br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks for the reminder of the member auditor. Maybe that removes any need to worry about secret accounts? </p>
<p dir="ltr">From nearby the A1 motorway, <br>
Gregory. </p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 5, 2016 10:39 PM, "Paul Norman" <<a href="mailto:paul.norman@osmfoundation.org">paul.norman@osmfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/5/2016 3:02 PM, Paul Norman wrote:<br>
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On 11/4/2016 5:55 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:<br>
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("Anonymous" is not the best word since we know whom the money comes<br>
from, we just don't share that knowledge. Maybe "confidential" is better<br>
but I'll stick to "anonymous" for this post.)<br>
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I prefer to call them "secret" donations. I don't have a problem with donations which are truly anonymous and we don't know where they're coming from except minimal banking or paypal information, provided we're not breaking money laundering regulations.<br>
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Also, how did contacting the companies at <a href="https://github.com/osmfoundation/board/issues/33#issuecomment-242140984" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/osmfoundati<wbr>on/board/issues/33#issuecommen<wbr>t-242140984</a> go?<br>
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This message had a mis-paste in it, completely unrelated to anonymous donations.<br>
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