Hello Ankurians. I am a lurker, a bystander watching the spectacular work Ankur does. I want to put my two cents in with regard to your decentralization proposal. I am an American and do not have allegiance to either Bangladesh or India; I am a Linux fan with Bengali roots and want to see your work continue instead of getting bogged down in personal differences between people.
My recommendation is to form a governing committee with equal members from both India and Bangladesh. This committee can decide by vote what to do about controversial issues. If the committee acts as mature adults whose primary goal is to keep the work alive, you should have no problem with votes that should be outside the realm of political boundaries of each country. There, now I have stuck my nose into matters that don't concern me...like a typical Bengali. American, but Bengali in origin which keeps me interested in your work...lopsided smiley face here...:-) Take care and good luck. Sudakshina Kar Piercy Pacifica, California --------------------------- "Life is impermanent, like lightning in the sky." - Naropa Sudakshina Kar Piercy http://www.linkedin.com/in/sudakshinapiercy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:16 PM To: bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Bengalinux-core Digest, Vol 2, Issue 19 Send Bengalinux-core mailing list submissions to bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Bengalinux-core digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Proposal for the future of Ankur Foundation (Golam Mortuza Hossain) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:40:25 +0530 From: Golam Mortuza Hossain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ankur-core] Proposal for the future of Ankur Foundation To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all, I have read the proposal several times but I am still quite unsure to say that I have got it correctly. The proposal regarding sort of "de-centralization" of Ankur's functioning and formation of several decision making bodies under Ankur for different issues are really attractive. In my opinion, with current situations this proposal could be really useful and could be implemented as soon as possible. However, I beg to differ on the very first proposal of having two separate units. It is true that there have been several disagreements among the ankurians on different issues and many of the issues remain unresolved even today. Its also true that often two opposite viewpoints have come from two different side of the border. Nevertheless, in my opinion, it would be flatly wrong to conclude that those views are true representative of each sides. Naturally, if this is the main motivation for having two separate child organizations then I am sorry to say that I don't see how the proposal of having two separate units is going to resolve those problems. We can(should) certainly have several decision making bodies under Ankur that will act independently and will take care of different issues under its aegis. These bodies can be formed as suggested in the proposal. Cheers, Golam -- http://www.imsc.res.in/~golam/ On Monday 26 June 2006 12:31, Taneem Ahmed wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi Taneem, > > > > Good to see you writing in again. > > I just wish the topic was different. > > > I read through the attachment and would request you to elaborate a bit > > more on the following: > > > > o However, people should be allowed to join only the parent organization > > I would like to believe there are people who won't be comfortable joining > either child organization, and just want to work on Bangla. > > > o All polices, projects, goals, decisions of Ankur Foundation will be > > made by the Ankur Foundation board members. > > I understand we are working with free software and everything should be > open. I expect that there will be open discussions about anything and > everything, but you must agree that at the end someone needs to make the > decision. I am sure that happens now as well, but with out making it > formal it may cause situations no one wants. > > I just hope we pick board members who will honestly try to work together, > otherwise.... > > > o All current and future localization projects will be under Ankur > > Foundation > > This proposal was made a while ago, and back then it was my expectation > that we can keep the localization projects under the parent org. However, > now I accept the fact that that is not going to happen. If most members > agree then we can remove this line, I just wanted to see how everyone > feels about this. > > > o Beside localization projects any other type of project initiated by > > either child organization will be considered the child organization's > > own project and will be run by it > > Well this was meant to give freedom to both child org to go ahead and do > projects that may deal with local issues, or projects with local > universities or any other organization. > > > > I have one request to everyone - don't take this proposal the wrong way. > > > It is not meant to divide the group, but an attempt to organize the group > > > to reduce tension and make sure our energy is spent productively. > > > > :) > > I wish I had a smile too :( > > Taneem > > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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