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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">NIce idea, Rory. If
anybody has questions for me, it's probably easiest just to
e-mail them to me in your choice of English, Russian, or German
(or French; my daughter speaks fluent French and can help me
with that). If anybody really has the urge to talk to me, hear
my voice, my Skype address is amustard, just give me a call. I
am also @allan_mustard on Twitter if anyone prefers that. If
you have access to cheap telephony, you may call +1 (309)
277-8127. Please remember that I am on Eastern Standard Time
and so please do not call me in the middle of the night my time.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Christoph commented
that he was not able to discern where I stand on conflict of
interest based on my laconic assertion that I have none since I
am retired. I should have pointed out that each year for the
past 37 years I have by U.S. law been required to take mandatory
training on ethics, including study of conflict of interest laws
and the need to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of
interest, which addresses the need to recuse oneself from
decisions that involve potential benefit to oneself or a member
of one's family. I am in fact quite sensitive to this thanks to
both years of training and my own observation of the fate of
people who ignore conflict of interest rules (e.g., the current
noise about Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. Vice President Joe
Biden). I do perceive the potential for conflict of interest on
the part of board members employed by GIS or cartographic firms,
and would be alert to that. <br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All that said, my only
current affiliation is with the non-profit Caspian Policy
Center, a boutique think tank in Washington, D.C., that analyzes
the Caucasus and Central Asian regions. Its only link to
cartography is that it recently bought a large wall map of the
region, which hangs in the foyer of its office.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">cheers,<br>
apm</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/8/2019 7:47 AM, Rory McCann
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:9a995c5e-eafe-a058-045f-30e26beb97a6@technomancy.org">Hello
all,
<br>
<br>
I like the idea of a video chat/conference where you can ask/talk
to a candidate (aka “office hours”). I'll offer that too. Any OSMF
member can open up the video chat, and we can have a talk, you can
ask me things, or whatever (watch me map buildings if you want).
I'll do 2 slots, 1 hour each, to try to cover time zones. Video or
just audio should be possible.
<br>
<br>
Tuesday 10 Decemeber 19:00 UTC (i.e. starting as soon as Michal's
office hours #5 ends) for 1 hour
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Video+Chat.+Ask+me+%28almost%29+Anything+%231&iso=20191210T19">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Video+Chat.+Ask+me+%28almost%29+Anything+%231&iso=20191210T19</a>
<br>
<br>
And the following morning, Wed 11 December 07:00 UTC for 1 hour.
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Video+Chat.+Ask+me+%28almost%29+Anything+%232&iso=20191211T07">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Video+Chat.+Ask+me+%28almost%29+Anything+%232&iso=20191211T07</a>
<br>
<br>
Please check those links for what time that is in your local time.
<br>
<br>
I will use Jitsi hosted by Framatalk, where is Free Software. ☺
Test that your browser/etc works here: here
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/">https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/</a>
<br>
<br>
I will update this wiki page with the link to the chat just before
each event starts:
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rorym/2019_OSMF_Candidacy">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rorym/2019_OSMF_Candidacy</a>
<br>
<br>
<br>
See you on the intertubes.
<br>
<br>
<br>
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