COI: non-PLC/Conservancy people and software development contract drafting (was Re: Conflict of Interest policy, 1 March 2012 draft)

[Ian Lynagh]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 05:13:42PM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 06:24:20PM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> >> if a PLC Person [...] wish[es] to be considered a candidate to fulfill
> >> the funded software development contract, that PLC Person has a conflict
> >> of interest and must recuse herself or himself from the proposal drafting
> >> process
> 
> Ian Lynagh wrote at 21:41 (EST) on Thursday:
> > Can a non-PLC person help put together the draft?
> 
> I don't think this should be any problem in the general case.
> 
> > If so, can that non-PLC person apply to do the proposed task?
> 
> Yes, that question is one of two prongs of problems that might come up.
> To address that one you raised specifically first:
> 
> I think this isn't really a problem, unless the PLC members themselves
> have a conflict.

Then if I understand correctly, a non-PLC person may help draft a
proposal and then apply for the contract, but a PLC person cannot.

If so, that seems odd to me.

> I therefore don't think this particular issue requires a change to the
> COI.  Ian, do you agree?

If you think it's fine as-is then that's fine.


Thanks
Ian

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