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Follow-up suggestions to mission-vision-values.md #1855

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Expand Up @@ -144,14 +144,13 @@ other community members.
It’s no secret that a good number of maintainers of the project are employed by
companies with commercial interests in OpenTelemetry, especially vendors in the
observability space. That said, we expect community members to act in the best
interests of the project. Each member’s priorities can (and should!) align with
those of their employers so that the relationship is beneficial to all parties,
but when acting as a maintainer or contributor to the project, community members
are expected to wear the project’s hat.
interests of the project. Each member’s priorities when acting as a maintainer
or contributor for the project should represent the interests of the project
and its community first before their own interests and other obligations (e.g. employer).

### Disclose potential conflicts of interest

Even within the project, people might have different hats: a Collector
Even within the project, people may have different hats: a Collector
maintainer might be part of the Governance Committee, a JavaScript maintainer
might be part of the Technical Committee, and so on. When the context of your
message can be ambiguous, make it clear which hat you are using. For instance,
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