On 2/2/2019 2:00 PM, Sally Khudairi wrote: > Hang on a minute. > > Kevin, you officially joined Fundraising 2 years ago, OK. > > Whilst there wasn't much activity on-list over the past few years, this was a > committee that actually started in 2003, as part of the PRC activity > (dovetailed fundraising, press, and trademark activities). > > fundraising@ launched in ~2005, possibly earlier. Archives go that far back. > > When Fundraising spun out in earnest (the PRC split early 2010), we branched > out our functions to three mailing lists > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d3dd13e2232f16b8a25ad97abc45652684041346f37eb5b2dd99e79e@1268226731@%3Cprc.apache.org%3E > > So yes, there may not have been much activity on the fundraising@ and > fundraising-private@ lists in the years prior to your arrival, there have > always been people on the list and working on greater Fundraising initiatives > since its formation, and ASF Sponsorship since establishing the program in > 2006. > > Please, whilst your personal experience may feel otherwise, let's not engage > in revisionist history. Yes, Fundraising has operated differently in the past > couple of years than it has in years --and much of that has been influenced > by it's Vice President-- but it doesn't mean that nothing existed prior to > your arrival. > > I feel it's important to clarify this because I respect you and all our past > Vice Presidents --Hadrian Zbarcea, Upayavira Malcolm Holmes, and Serge > Knystautas-- as well as Daniel Ruggeri as current VP, and those before them, > during the PRC: Brian Fitzpatrick, Jim Jagielski, Justin Erenkrantz, Sander > Striker, and many other unrecognized, under-appreciated volunteers, going > back to Chuck Murko, who helped launched the Treasury. > > History is important. Only moving forward without knowing where we came from > escalates our risk of tripping up.
Sally, I was not trying to be revisionist or especially not to discount people's prior work by calling it a committee of 1. Call it Fundraising 2.0 if you will when I came on board. I say made it a committee because I specifically discussed if it was a committee or not from a parliamentarian prospective and then took steps to make it a President's committee. The outcome of that was things like the fundraising-private list with the initial role (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-14307?jql=text%20~%20%22fundraising%40%22) and the institution of monthly committee meetings with agendas & minutes which built on the bi-weekly meetings I had initially with just Lynsey & I. In any case, I am certainly very thankful to all the past VPs and to my current Co-VP Daniel (at least for a few more weeks). I couldn't get where I got without building on their work and I hope it can continue to grow. We've got a big task ahead to meet some pretty large fiscal budgets and I want to set it up for success. Regards, KAM --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
