+1 Bravo Vicky!
Very well said. Thank you. Kind regards, Bruce > On 22 Oct 2017, at 23:45, Vicky Vergara <vi...@georepublic.de> wrote: > > Open letter to Jeff McKenna. > > Dear Jeff: > > I am so sad about the situation that led you to ask about the withdrawal. > > All of us, OSGeo members, no matter the position on the organization, are > volunteers. > We volunteer our time, our knowledge, our resources, our energy, sometimes > even our family. > We don’t make comparisons between the someone that took one minute to make a > contribution, with the other someone who took 5 minutes. Maybe this last > statement its not 100% true, the exception I see is when we nominate a person > for the board and we want the rest of the community to notice the > contributions that are done by the nominee. > > I was the first person to second your nomination, even when I was nominated > myself, because, I don’t see any of the nominees as opponents, I see them as > work team. From the fact that none of us participated on any attack of any > kind I deduce that we have the same view about each other: we are a team. > > At the moment of your nomination, I see you trying to keep up to date the > OSGeo wiki pages, twitting events, volunteering time for SAC, planning to go > to a FOSS4G, doing administration of GSoC OSGeo program, applying for GCI > program, asking for volunteers, commenting on my poster design, making the > MapServer releases, and maybe more things that I don’t know about, but I am > leaving at the end of this list: you were also helping the CRO. > Because of your extra will to help and to give more to the community, how > fortunate the CRO was to have your help for the charter member elections, > specially this year, with so many new nominated people for charter member, > and how unfortunate for you to be pointed at because of the helping inertia, > keep on helping. Even when you stepped down from helping the CRO to accept > the nomination. > > I must tell you that, not even in my wildest dreams I expected to be asked if > I would accept to be part of the board, I consider that an honor, and it > comes with a lot of responsibilities. If instead of you helping the CRO, was > me the one helping the CRO, I would have done the same, step down to accept > the nomination, basically because someone considers that my possible, non > CRO, future contributions are more valuable than contributing helping the CRO. > > One thing that worries me is to see that helping so much, deserves an attack > of such magnitude, and if its not for your “helping the CRO” reason, and, > despite of being a reminder, the “stepping down from board past” that was > started, might have been the cheery of this sour cake. > > I don’t know about that past, and I don’t ask, as I mentioned I have being > only two years on the organization, I only know about what I have seen during > these 2 years, and that knowledge gives me a feeling of what I want to see in > the future. > > Based on what I see, and what I can foresee with you on the board, I am not > withdrawing my second-ing your nomination made by Nicolas Bozon. > As a person, I can understand, and I fully support what ever decision you > make/made, to keep your mind in peace, after all things that have happened. > > There are other things that worries me for the future: > - Members could refrain from nominating (or seconding a nomination) because > when you nominate a person, you never ever want the person to be treated like > that, > - We all make mistakes, and the fear of being overly attacked because of that > speck of sawdust, could refrain accepting the nomination. > - Members could stop asking about what they feel is important because they > don’t know how a question can be overly used or be considered by others. > This really was a lose-lose situation. > You can be sure you that no matter what the outcome is, because, as charter > member, I will do, within my capabilities and knowledge, what ever I can, for > this kind of situation never to repeat in the future to any of us. > > Despite of being repetitive, I understand what you are going through, and you > have my support and friendship. > > With all my respect and admiration, your friend and colleague, > Celia Virginia Vergara Castillo. > OSGeo Charter Member > > > >> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Jeff McKenna >> <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: >> Dear CRO, >> >> Please accept my withdrawal from the Board election. I am sorry to cause >> all of the problems so clearly explained by so many here publicly this >> election. >> >> I wish to take the time now to thank all of the candidates for volunteering >> their time for the OSGeo community. >> >> Yours, >> >> -Jeff McKenna >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt) > Salzmannstraße 44, > 81739 München, Germany > > Vicky Vergara > Operations Research > > eMail: vi...@georepublic.de > Web: https://georepublic.info > > Tel: +49 (089) 4161 7698-1 > Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9 > > Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428 > CEO: Daniel Kastl > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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