[Eg-oversight-board] Statement of Clarification

[Grace Dunbar]

Hi Terran,

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Terran McCanna <
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> For the benefit of the record, I would like to add two things to this
> message that I feel were obfuscated:
>
> >>a.     On February 17, I was notified by the Board Secretary, Chris
> Sharp, that Tanya had been going to him privately to resolve issues for the
> conference and to deal with the SFC, excluding the conference committee
> altogether.<<
>
> Chris Sharp was the designated liaison to the SFC at the time. The role of
> SFC liaison is to facilitate communication between the SFC and other
> parties that have to work with the SFC.
>

That's actually not true.  The stated role of the Representative to the
Conservancy is to "instruct the conservancy on the project's behalf".  The
role is for that person to communicate to the SFC *as directed by the EOB.*



> >>b.     If the issues discussed between Tanya, Chris, and the SFC
> included the PINES sponsorship issues or anything regarding the Emerald
> Data sponsorships, I would point out that there is a potential conflict of
> interest in that involvement since GPLS is Chris’ employer and Emerald Data
> is their vendor.<<
>
> Grace neglected to mention that GPLS also has a current contract with
> Equinox. Equinox is as much "our" vendor as Emerald is.
>

I think you're missing the point.  If the conference host felt it was a
conflict of interest for me to be involved in sponsorship issues simply
because I work for a competing vendor, I fail to see how it is NOT also a
conflict of interest for someone else on the EOB to be asked to handle
matters when they have a relationship with that very vendor.

Grace
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