On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 01:31:31AM +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > > Of course, the initial CCs are free to resign > > Why don't *you* resign, Keith?
I've thought about this a great deal over the past 2 months. I have a number of good answers, and your question deserves a thorough response. I also have a number of doubts; I've never been less enthusiastic about continuing my service. It's not at all clear to me why anyone would want a seat on this board unless he or she believed the OGB to be powerless figureheads; I can't immediately think of anything I've suggested doing other than simply placing rubber stamps on noncontroversial Group instantiations that has not required me to defend a rational - often board-approved - position from howls of protest and derision. In between such dustups, of course, has been a steady stream of low-level attacks on the board as a do-nothing entity. This irony is too bitter to be savoured. Why don't I resign? A flippant answer might be "By Jove, why *don't* I?!" In this particular case, we didn't even take the action that you presumably find both wrong-headed and personally offensive. After a short debate, I agreed with that decision, which would no doubt have been unanimous had we bothered to do our duty by voting formally (more likely I would have been granted leave to withdraw it). But here we are anyway. Enough self-pity. I plan to spend some time while traveling during the holiday week writing both a justification for remaining and a letter of resignation. The one in which I believe more strongly will be posted here when I return. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
