On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Alberto Ruiz <ar...@gnome.org> wrote: > Zeeshan,
Alberto, > I understand your frustration, I like to believe people mean well and I think you do too in here but sorry I don't feel that you understand my frustration, reading through the rest of your reply. You completely focused on my email and showing how it's not constructive at all, instead of suggesting any solution to the actual problem. > but how would you feel if you were one of the volunteers throwing as much > spare time as you have to help in the committee and you read your email (or > even just the subject, which I find discouraging enough)? how would you feel > if you were thinking about becoming a volunteer on this or some other > committee/group within GNOME and saw this kind of negative feedback thrown? > Do you think your email is particularly encouraging? 1. Soon after sending this email, I immediately started to get replies to my emails from one member of the travel committee and was informed of the status of my reimbursement So yes, this seems to have been not entirely futile. 2. I did not mean this to be a insulting email but more like bringing up an issue. If my choice of words wasn't the best, I do apologise. > We must be rather careful with words towards people making an extra effort > outside of their work/"normal" life to help run this community. This sort of > problem is normal in any volunteer based organization, which you should know > by now, and your email doesn't quite point things towards any particular > solution. What are we (the foundation members) supposed to do with your > email? Unleash some sort of imaginary whip towards the travel committee? I'm > pretty sure they're doing their best. Like many people here suggested, a solution could be for more people on the committee. If that's the case, I'd like to volunteer (though I'm guessing this is the not the right place for that). P.S. Please note that the actual re-reimbursement process being slow is not what I was getting frustrated about but rather the complete lack of communication from the committee for weeks in a row despite weekly reminders and having no idea about when I'll be reimbursed. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) ________________________________________ Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list