thanks @julcnx for taking your time to write a response. As described in the link above, a moderator in this discourse website has duties on enabling productive discussions on the community website.
Quote from:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/moderator-selection-criteria/2392?u=stephankn
On-boarding and responsibilities
By putting themselves forward for a moderator position, candidates commit to:
- Proactive Moderation: Stay active and regularly monitor conversations and community flags.
- Incident Response: Follow and enforce the category and forum etiquette guidelines.
So a moderator in the community forum does not have any specific duties outside of the forum coming with the role. So especially not to moderate editing conflicts or following up violations of the organized editing guideline with DWG or other entities.
There is certainly an overlap in the persons involved. You are well aware that in our small community many activities are driven by a relatively small group of engaged community members. But they do it without any obligation coming from a role as a moderator here (or in the old forum).
I like your idea of being transparent regarding potential conflicts of interests. I have added a section on my user page. To summarize here: My income is without OSM context. I pay the server for tiles and osmose backends out of my own pocket (~ 800 EUR/year). Many years ago I received a one-time sponsoring by a company in OSM context, but not active in Thailand.
I would like to add: Based on the moderator role, the only conflict of interest here would be in terms of abusing the moderator powers, to probably censor postings or similar. A community moderator role is limited to the forum here. Still publishing for full transparency and encouraging other moderators to follow.
If someone would like to step in as moderator, please announce it here (the sooner, the better). On the 15th a poll for moderators will be opened.