Conflict of Interest Declarations

ktemkin commented

2024-04-28 05:02:32 +00:00

Owner

On the website, I tentatively have the following CoI statment:

As a community project, it’s important that project decisions are made exclusively for the benefit of the community, and don’t serve any other interests – including personal or corporate gain.

If a team member is unable to do so in any context, they are required to disclose the conflict of interest and to recuse themselves from any leadership decisions affected.

As transparency is important, we’ve included declarations from each core team member regarding any possible conflicts of interest.

Can each of the following people please comment with a declaration regarding any CoIs?

@hexchen
@irenes
@jade
@ktemkin
@lunaphied
@pennae
@puck
@qyriad
@raito
@rbt

If you have no CoIs to declare, you can just reply with a statement like this:

Lunaphied declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the governance of Lix.

As an example, here's my declaration:

Kate Temkin is the CEO and one-third owner of Tactile Metrology LLC (TMLLC), a company that currently sponsors Lix development. TMLLC declares that it has no financial stake in the future of Lix or Nix, no ties to the military-industrial-complex, and a strong commitment to avoiding such ties. TMLLC is owned by individuals, and not VC investors. Kate accordingly declares she has no conflicts of interest regarding governance of Lix.

On the website, I tentatively have the following CoI statment: > As a community project, it’s important that project decisions are made exclusively for the benefit of the community, and don’t serve any other interests – including personal or corporate gain. > > If a team member is unable to do so in any context, they are required to disclose the conflict of interest and to recuse themselves from any leadership decisions affected. > > As transparency is important, we’ve included declarations from each core team member regarding any possible conflicts of interest. Can each of the following people please comment with a declaration regarding any CoIs? - [x] @hexchen - [x] @irenes - [x] @jade - [x] @ktemkin - [x] @lunaphied - [x] @pennae - [x] @puck - [x] @qyriad - [x] @raito - [x] @rbt If you have no CoIs to declare, you can just reply with a statement like this: > **Lunaphied** declare that they have **no conflicts of interest** regarding the governance of Lix. As an example, here's my declaration: > **Kate Temkin** is the CEO and one-third owner of **Tactile Metrology LLC (TMLLC)**, a company that currently sponsors Lix development. TMLLC declares that it has no financial stake in the future of Lix or Nix, no ties to the military-industrial-complex, and a strong commitment to avoiding such ties. TMLLC is owned by individuals, and not VC investors. Kate accordingly declares she has **no conflicts of interest** regarding governance of Lix.

pennae was assigned by ktemkin

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jade was assigned by ktemkin

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hexchen was assigned by ktemkin

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raito was assigned by ktemkin

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puck was assigned by ktemkin

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ktemkin commented

2024-04-28 05:03:55 +00:00

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Owner

We'll have to refine this once we have governance and a more formal CoI policy, but this is something that helps for now, given the current state of the community.

irenes commented

2024-04-28 05:29:51 +00:00

Owner

Irene Knapp (they/them) is the technology director of Internet Safety Labs (ISL), a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit. To the best of Irene's knowledge, ISL has no financial involvement with any Lix or Nix effort or organization, other than its own internal infrastructure. Irene is also involved in an advisory capacity with the Coworker Solidarity Fund, a US-based 501(c)(4). Should a governance decision involving these or any other financial ties arise, Irene will recuse themselves from decision-making. Additionally, while the following does not fall within the scope of any reasonable conflict of interest policy and is not within the scope of the recusal promise, Irene chooses to affirm that they have many personal ties to trans, disabled and neurodivergent tech workers, and are involved with providing and encouraging peer support to same. Irene views the broader queer, disabled, and neurodivergent communities as the primary people to whom they are responsible as an activist, regardless of whatever other affiliations they may have.

NOTE that I changed a word, please use this version

**Irene Knapp** (they/them) is the technology director of Internet Safety Labs (ISL), a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit. To the best of Irene's knowledge, ISL has no financial involvement with any Lix or Nix effort or organization, other than its own internal infrastructure. Irene is also involved in an advisory capacity with the Coworker Solidarity Fund, a US-based 501(c)(4). **Should a governance decision involving these or any other financial ties arise, Irene will recuse themselves from decision-making.** Additionally, while the following does not fall within the scope of any reasonable conflict of interest policy and is not within the scope of the recusal promise, Irene chooses to affirm that they have many personal ties to trans, disabled and neurodivergent tech workers, and are involved with providing and encouraging peer support to same. Irene views the broader queer, disabled, and neurodivergent communities as the primary people to whom they are responsible as an activist, regardless of whatever other affiliations they may have. **NOTE that I changed a word, please use this version**

hexchen commented

2024-04-28 05:30:23 +00:00

Owner

Phrasing probably needs some tweaking, but here we go:

hexchen's employer and its sister companies use Nix/Lix internally and offer Nix-based consulting. hexchen has no stake in the company, does not work in the consulting teams and there is no expectation for her to contribute to Lix on company time. She therefore declares that she has no conflict of interest regarding the governance of Lix.

Phrasing probably needs some tweaking, but here we go: hexchen's employer and its sister companies use Nix/Lix internally and offer Nix-based consulting. hexchen has no stake in the company, does not work in the consulting teams and there is no expectation for her to contribute to Lix on company time. She therefore declares that she has no conflict of interest regarding the governance of Lix.

jade commented

2024-04-28 07:09:27 +00:00

Owner

Jade is currently not working on anything else relevant to Lix development. She thus declares that she has no conflict of interest regarding the governance of Lix.

pennae commented

2024-04-28 15:24:35 +00:00

Owner

pennae declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the governance of Lix.

raito commented

2024-04-29 17:45:35 +00:00

Owner

raitobezarius declare that he's self-employed in a cooperative, offers Nix-based consulting and training. He has currently no stake in the cooperative (this will change soon). He's also employed by INRIA until August 2024 on Rust formal verification matters.
Should a governance decision involving these or any other financial ties arise, raitobezarius will recuse themselves from decision-making.

Additionally, raitobezarius is co-president of DGNum (dgnum.eu), a French "loi 1901" nonprofit organization aiming to promote the parisian Ecole Normale Superieure (45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris) excellence on computer science using heavily Nix/NixOS based technologies.

raitobezarius declare that he's self-employed in a cooperative, offers Nix-based consulting and training. He has currently no stake in the cooperative (this will change soon). He's also employed by INRIA until August 2024 on Rust formal verification matters. **Should a governance decision involving these or any other financial ties arise, raitobezarius will recuse themselves from decision-making.** Additionally, raitobezarius is co-president of DGNum (dgnum.eu), a French "loi 1901" nonprofit organization aiming to promote the parisian Ecole Normale Superieure (45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris) excellence on computer science using heavily Nix/NixOS based technologies.

puck commented

2024-04-29 18:04:34 +00:00

Owner

Puck is working on an NLnet project involving Nix. Should a governance decision involving these financial ties arise, she will recuse herself from decision-making.

(feel free to adjust the wording slightly; I'm not very great at doing these kinds of formal texts.)

Puck is working on an NLnet project involving Nix. Should a governance decision involving these financial ties arise, she will recuse herself from decision-making. (feel free to adjust the wording slightly; I'm not very great at doing these kinds of formal texts.)

ktemkin closed this issue

2024-05-02 04:06:33 +00:00

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