Conflicts of interest with WordCamp and WordPress Meetup organizers.
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A question was posed to the Make WordPress blog recently that many of us found interesting:
“Recently, I realized that community organizers do sometimes face a conflict of interest situations, but the team does not really have clear guidelines about how to avoid them, nor best practices for when there is one.”
https://make.wordpress.org/community/2019/08/15/discussion-how-to-handle-conflict-of-interest-situations/
Some questions that were presented to the community were:
- What different kinds of conflict of interest situations we have now and what we might encounter in the future?
- How to work around those?
- Can we accept the conflict of interest in some situations?
- What would be the best approach to disclose situations where someone notices a conflict of interest?
Jennifer Bourn brought this to twitter
There’s an interesting conversation happening about conflicts of interest with WordCamp and WordPress Meetup organizers here: https://t.co/OcNGY1sK4m — interestingly enough, this same thing is making me rethink my volunteerism
— Jennifer Bourn (@jenniferbourn) August 22, 2019
So we asked her to join us to discuss this on the show.
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