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I wanted to pick up on the confict of interest thread:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/22/20 1:43 PM, Magnus Melin wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:233d58f6-f845-69cc-b62e-0bcfab296a89@iki.fi">Conflicts
of interest are handled by recusing oneself from specific votes
(or discussions) where one would have an obvious conflict of
interest.
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Here is a good example of why this self regulation is not working
at the moment:<br>
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Meeting notes from 2020-02-20<br>
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the call: Magnus, Ryan, Wayne, Patrick, Jörg, Philipp</span><br
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<li>Elections - Motion from Philipp to update the election
organization/association/unit rules to add MZLA: The 'Mozilla
Corporation' [1], the 'Mozilla Foundation', and ‘MZLA
Technologies’ are (considered) separate companies for purposes
of "professional affiliation". Motion passed: 5 yes, 1 abstain</li>
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A motion was put forward by Philipp, who has a conflict of
interest. Then it should also never have been seconded. And at least
3 people would have had to abstain for conflict of interest on this
vote because they are employed by the entities in question. <br>
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Hence it is clear that self regulation and recusing oneself is
clearly not up to best practice yet. Hence I remain of the opinion
that it should be clearly defined in our by-laws. From any legal or
accounting point of view, these three entities are one and the same
entity. What should be the status of such motions and votes?<br>
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I will keep pushing for rules and by-laws that will clarify what is
acceptable transparently and prevent future issues with conflict of
interest topics. <br>
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Regards,<br>
-ba<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation</a><br>
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