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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Vào lúc 14:52 2022-11-18, Dorothea
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">The official questions by Michael Collinson were based on questions by
the community and from previous years. The community questions are here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM2022/Election_to_Board#Community_questions_to_OSMF_board_candidates,_upon_which_the_official_set_will_be_based">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM2022/Election_to_Board#Community_questions_to_OSMF_board_candidates,_upon_which_the_official_set_will_be_based</a></pre>
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">Thanks to all the candidates for taking the time to respond to this extensive questionnaire. As a voting member, I appreciate this effort because it allows candidates to present a broader picture of their involvement and thinking around OSM, not just the parts we tend to talk about day to day.
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<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">The responses to question 5, about <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM2022/Election_to_Board/Answers_and_manifestos/Q05_Transparency_-_Conflicts_of_interest">transparency and conflicts of interest</a>, raised some questions in my mind. After chatting briefly with Mateusz in OSMUS Slack, I’d like to give him an opportunity to clarify his response to this question before the membership here.
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap">Mateusz Konieczny writes:</span>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap"><blockquote type="cite"><p>This is probably not relevant in OSM, at least for now, but I want to mention <a rel="nofollow" class="external free moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_order">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gag_order</a> which were issued for example in UK or USA, including bans on ever saying anything about being served with one.
</p></blockquote>I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make by mentioning gag orders, which can only be issued by courts of law, in the context of a question about conflicts of interest. If you’re insinuating that the UK judiciary could be covering up a conflict of interest against the OSMF, then the Foundation has far more serious problems than I imagined. Perhaps there was a confusion with a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), which in some cases could prevent its subject from speaking out about its existence.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">I would like to know the scenario by which you theorize that a candidate might be compromised by a gag order or secret NDA to unduly influence the decisions made by the board, and whether you believe there’s a substantially higher risk of this scenario involving candidates from the United Kingdom or United States versus other countries. If this is not so relevant to the election, then I hope my fellow voters don’t read too much into this suggestive statement. More broadly, I hope that whoever ends up on the board takes due care when floating legal theories, which coming from a board member could unnecessarily result in a misunderstanding or overreaction.</span></p>
<p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap">(For full disclosure: Arun and I work on different teams at Mapbox. However, I’m starting this discussion out of an earnest desire to set the record straight regarding the kinds of legal obligations that a candidate may or may not be subject to, not to campaign in his favor.)
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