On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 09:51:46AM +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:03:19PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > In this case, before I agreed to serve on the travel sponsorship committee, > > I > > expressed reluctance to do so based on this exact concern, and didn't want > > to > > create the appearance of a conflict of interest. I was told that this issue > > had > > When you had these concerns about jeopardizing the 501(c)3 status of a > corporation to which you have fiduciary responsibility, did you seek > legal advice before proceeding anyway? If so, did you share this advice > with any other members of the committee?
This issue is separate from protecting SPI's 501(c)(3) status, actually, or at least it's different than the issue of donors making specific-individual earmarks. It was primarily a general ethical/avoid-appearance-of-impropriety concern due to being on both sides of the herb process, but even to the extent it was related to my SPI service, it's a state law compliance issue, not a 501(c)(3) issue. However, I have several times read through the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law's rules on how to deal with decisions by the board in which a director is personally interested. I've also read various other statues and articles on this topic. Although I'm not entirely sure whether those rules apply directly to something as attenuated from SPI governance as the DebConf herb team, I feel that the herb team process was at least close enough in practice, maybe also in theory, to required procedure to protect SPI and myself. It was not any sort of external legal advice, so there was none of that to share. > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:46:10PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Thanks, this is very interesting. I agree, actually. However see the rest of that mail for why such statistics are highly misleading. - Jimmy Kaplowitz ji...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
