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Hi Chris,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/10/2022 12:32, Chris Sherlock
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 8:24
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it would have been great, if you'd explained that you are
working for<br>
the company which forked away from LibreOffice Online<br>
(<a
href="https://www.documentfoundation.org/gethelp/developers/"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.documentfoundation.org/gethelp/developers/</a>).<br>
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Thus you have on this specific topic (the online version of
LibreOffice<br>
and the work on that project) a (potential?) CoI.<br>
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<div> 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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.
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Ciao<br>
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Paolo<br>
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