Summer School LEX2012

Thanks Scott. Clear enough.
Yours,
mp
Il 13/11/2012 21:51, Scott McGrath ha scritto:
Monica,
I am sorry I wasn't more clear -
I have no reason to doubt your judgement, I truly hope it
wan't perceived that I implied any wrong-doing in any way.   I
know how much you contribute and I continue to be impressed by
the valuable work you do.
My only point in raising the issue was to ensure compliance
with Conflict of Interest principles (as perceived in the US).
 You can see the COI Policy that OASIS works under, posted at  https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/conflict-of-interest
which describes the responsibility to disclose any *potential*
conflict of interest--and therefore removing any opportunity for
someone to misunderstand.  Personally, I think disclosure and
discussion of your commitment and involvement with both
organizations is useful  because it reminds everyone of how we
benefit from  your involvement with both organizations!
Warmest regards,
Scott...
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:31 PM,
monica.palmirani  < 
>
wrote:
Just a
clarification to all.
Other TC members, apart Roger, received some supports from
the summer school in order to attend to the event and/or the
TC meeting.
This is ok for me, as well as the Roger's request.
It was quite strong to hear the Scott's declaration about
the  conflict of interest  when it happened exactly the
opposite.
Due to the fact that I am the director of the Summer School
I favoured the LegalDocML TC members, I promoted OASIS
inside of the summer school, I presented the TC activities,
I asked to the  students  to join to the TC (memberships),
reduced the costs, minimized the travel expenditure.
Finally I abstained by voting voluntary, as a good legal
tradition ask, in order to not create any embarrassment in
the SC.
I hope that no suspects is pending in the Scott thought, or
in any other LegalXML-SC members, after this clarification.
Yours,
Monica
Il 13/11/2012 21:03, Shifrin, Laurel (LNG-HBE) ha scritto:
Just to confirm:
  -- the Summer School line item has been approved.

--
Monica did not need to abstain from the budget
vote; the SC members were all comfortable with her
voting.
In the interests of full disclosure:  I have a large,
geographically dispersed staff, many of whom put in
requests for conferences, travel, etc. Like anyone
else, I have to parcel out the travel budget and not
every request is approved, which is why I told Roger I
did not have funds for him to attend the Summer
School. He pursued attendance directly with Monica.
The fact that he was one of the  students  sponsored
by Legal XML came as a surprise to me, after the trip
had already occurred. He had a positive contribution
to the summer school and to LegalDocML in general, so
I'm glad it was beneficial but it was not my intention
to have Legal XML fund it. Lesson certainly learned --
either I can pay for my staff's conference/training
out of my own budget or they don't attend, period.
Regards, Laurel