Hi Rupert,This statement convinces me that you are an independent committer on the project. I think it would be good for everyone on the qpid project who consider themselves to be independent to post a similar statement.
I'd probably go further, and ask that the statements be included in the "who we are" section of the public qpid incubator project site.
I think this would go a long way toward making the incubator pmc members more comfortable about the diversity of the project.
I understand that some consulting contracts have explicit clauses that require that the consultant *not* publicize their working relationships with clients. But I think that it's possible for qpid committers to make statements similar to Rupert's below, to the effect that even though they might have worked on a project that used qpid, or were at some point paid to work on qpid, that their current contributions and activities are on their own nickel. And I hope that Rupert doesn't get into trouble with JPMC over this disclosure.
Craig On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Rupert Smith wrote:
I don't mean to be secretive so I shall clarify things for you. I have provided consultancy to JPMC and this did relate to Qpid, particularlyhelping some of their teams to get set up with it. However, I have never been covered by a corporate CLA but signed it as an individual contributor. This was because I was not ever an employee of JPMC but provided consultancy through another company. Our contract stated something along the lines ofJPMC specify what it is that they need, but is up to the contractor todecide how, where, when this is fulfilled (in order to make it clear that I was not an employee). In other words, I chose of my own independent free will to recomend Qpid as a solution for them, and contributed to it as an independant entity to further our mutual aims, rather than being employedspecifically to work on it.I have finished consulting for JPMC but am still a committer to the project. I have an active interest in other customers who could benefit from free and open middleware especially where the interoperable and open nature of AMQPcould be used to their advantage. I also have an ongoing interest indeveloping some testing ideas based on aspects of model checking, as I wrote the junit-toolkit, and am interested in ways in which logic programming canbe used to generate and evaluate test cases.I'm currently an active committer and fully independant at the time of theproposed graduation. Hope this helps you make your minds up. Best regards, Rupert On 25/03/2008, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Robert Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >wrote:On 25/03/2008, Robert Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Let's drop the "legally" qualifier from independent... this isn'tthe IRS :-)In that case I would claim that I am also independent. Although I workfor JPMC I am not paid to work on the Qpid project and all my contributions for the last 14 months have been in my own time. Asanyone can see from my public LinkedIn profile, I am an architect forthe cash equities business.That's cool. I'd much rather have people put it all out there and letothers decide (full disclosure). Intersecting affiliations should bedisclosed IMO. Doesn't matter what that affiliation is... working forpart time, full time, indirectly, an indirect client of, working on site, whatever. The whole secrecy thing is strange. Is Rupert one of those guys who can't reveal his affiliations (including people he works with and end clients, not just middle-men)? -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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