[OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Wed Dec 9 20:33:14 GMT 2009


On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> It's a difficult situation being OSMF chairman, LWG leader, and
> CloudMade founder at the same time. (I did campaign for no commercial
> interests to be represented in the OSMF board in the election run-up
> but, as always, nobody listened...)

Conflict of Interest should be properly declared.

> So, whichever way he does it it's wrong, isn't it?

In that case some honesty would be appreciated - to say that this situation is 
a problem for Cloudmade and Geofabrik while another situation is not.
It's called declaring a conflict of interest.

I understand Australian law on this matter, having been recently re-trained on 
the roles of company directors.
Here they term it Governance Training, and I would be please if the OSMF Board 
spent money on itself and paid for all its directors to have this sort of 
training, if this has not already occurred.








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