On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Richard Creighton
On 2011-01-15 Nelson offered the following:
Thank you, Nelson, for this 'expose`'.
Basil,
Please be mindful that two of the victims of the perpetrator's attacks are running to the board, and third victim of the perpetrator attack is already on the board.
According to the perpetrator, a 'defense' wasn't allowed to happen. Indeed there is something fuzzy here, and it should be a +1 if there was the need of the Board clarifying this.
I believe the board mission isn't about 'enforcing' but prevention. This opens a very dangerous precedent which can be exploited in the future to use the Board as a tool of repression. I wouldn't be surprised that with this precedent the number of cases might escalate in the future.
It is also most interesting that this matter comes up at the time when people have been submitting their names for the Board election - and as a message posted by someone here states that this person was one who was putting his name forward for the Board.
And the current Board chose just this very specific time, after fooling around with this issue for some 12 months or so, to expel this person.
Coincidences do happen all the time don't they?......
I have decided to withdraw my application to the board, and revoke my membership. I will though continue my contributions in the future to openSUSE GNOME.
NM
I would have hoped this would have been your excuse to FIGHT! ... to right a wrong and to get on the board and set policy to a correct route by defining the RIGHT way to handle such incidents and to right past wrongs where possible. If you don't, or won't, openSUSE, is DEAD IMO. Politicians need to be grossly mistrusted intrinsically by the electorate and the 'community'. The community needs to hold a strong string tied collectively around the most sensitive part of the gonads of the governing members of the board, congress, executive, judicial or other bureaucracies that affect them. When the governing members get out of line, the community needs to 'yank hard' to remind them who is in charge, eg, they govern by informed consent, not by hidden edict and 'trust me, I am doing what is best for you even if you don't like it' jam it down your throat force.
Richard Creighton Community member
Richard, Thanks for your kind words. I don't have any motivation on being part of a organizational organ that 'polices' other people. My interest on the board was purelly to promote expantion and to promote sensibility towards users needs. Helps us understand what our users expect from us, so we could answer properly. Also helping our users understanding who we are and what we stand for... Nothing of this has to do with 'community police' actions. The community knows how to take care of itself ;), we all know that... NM
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