amazing, the one thing that terrifies cabals everywhere, the community making a decision itself in a vote
May 3, 2019, 3:19 PM by [email protected]: > > While you elected me as your representative in 2017, that doesn't give > me a mandate to be representative for life. > > While some outspoken people from the inner circle have been quick to > speak up publicly about the independent Fellowship mailing list, people > with other views have either contacted me privately or not spoken at > all. Since the changes in 2018, many people have been afraid to speak > against censorship and other bullying because they are afraid they will > be the next victim, that is the nature of the problem we face. Many > people only choose to express their opinion in the privacy of a ballot > box. As my final duty as I go into Fellowship retirement, I intend to > give you all that opportunity and pass the torch to the leaders you give > that mandate to. > > Membership status in FSFE is also a hot topic. In any organization, > membership means one thing: participation in decision making through > voting in elections and general meetings. When FSFE abolished[1] > elections last year, they published a blog stating[2] they were just > simplifying the membership procedure. Minutes[3] of the annual general > meeting show only one new member was accepted under the "simplified" > procedure they promised you. The failure to acknowledge the rest of you > as members denies you the ability to participate in decisions or choose > your leader. > > Here is the 2019 election calendar: > > - Nominations for the position of Fellowship Council (3 seats) open > immediately, send your nomination to this list, please include the word > "[nomination]" in your message subject so that it isn't missed > > - Nominations close 12:00 UTC next Friday, 10 May 2019 > > - If only 3 or less nominations are received, they are the automatic > winners. Otherwise, voting will open as soon as possible after > nominations close. > > - Voting closes at 14:03 CEST (12:03 UTC) on Sunday, 26 May, exactly one > year after the FSFE staff met in their Berlin headquarters to abolish[1] > elections. > > As we all believe in Free, there are not a lot of rules. We will > probably not use Doodle to run the poll. The set of eligible voters is > all those people who are subscribed to this list at 9am UTC on Monday, > 6 May 2019. > > Now that FSFE has formally cut ties with the Fellowship, it leaves some > important questions for each of us: > > Do you accept being force-subscribed to the Supporter program? You can > reject that by exercising your rights under the GDPR, simply write to > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> and write "I never agreed to > join the Supporter > program, I will only be in the Fellowship" > > Are you still a Fellow? That is you choice too, you can stay or leave > at your discretion. > > Does the Fellowship need to be legally incorporated or not? > > Does the Fellowship really need a leader, a Fellowship council or some > other decision-making body? I'm not personally volunteering for that, I > am only volunteering to coordinate the election for 2019. I feel that > starting with 3 people allows a few different opinions to co-exist and > build from there. > > Do Fellows want to put your money into an official Fellowship bank > account or trust and then ration it to FSFE, FSF and other > organizations by instalment, on a pay-for-performance basis? Do you > want to subject these organizations to periodic evaluations, like GSoC > students, giving them a pass or fail? Or does the Fellowship not want > to have any money? This is your choice, not mine. > > Some people already asked me about copies of the Fellowship contact data > or helping to manage the mailing list. It is the right of the whole > Fellowship to decide who makes decisions about your data. You appoint > those people when you vote. > > As the Fellowship makes its intentions clear through a democratic vote, > I will look at how to hand over control of the domain fsfellowship.eu, > contact data, the mailing list, the GA mailing list archives and > everything else to the new Fellowship Council. > > Some people made enquiries about unsubscribing and GDPR. This mailing > list serves exactly the same purpose as previous mailing lists, you > already opted-in to Fellowship communications, it has just migrated to > more resilient infrastructure, so it is not spam. The FSFE made it > impossible for some people to communicate through the old list, thereby > forcing the creation of a parallel infrastructure. Matthias Kirschner > also removed the blog of the fellowship representative from Planet FSFE, > that is a very heavy-handed act of censorship and I personally have no > trust in any FSFE infrastructure after that. If GDPR is applicable, > that means the Fellowship has 30 days to respond to any requests to > remove your data and there is no reason to believe this wouldn't be > respected. > > If you consider yourself a candidate for Fellowship Council, please > consider publicly sharing your nomination, your platform and your > preferred answers to the questions above. > > This is your Fellowship. Good luck. > > Regards, > > Daniel > > > 1. > https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/minutes-2018-05-26.en_.pdf > <https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/minutes-2018-05-26.en_.pdf> > 2. > https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/2018-05-26-fsfe-abolishes-elections.pdf > <https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/2018-05-26-fsfe-abolishes-elections.pdf> > 3. > https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/minutes-2018-10-07.en.pdf > <https://fsfellowship.eu/assets/minutes-2018-10-07.en.pdf> > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion > <https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/mailman/listinfo/discussion> >
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