Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How to retire membership status?

2018-06-22 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Well said Cameron. Bruce > On 23 Jun 2018, at 07:35, Cameron Shorter wrote: > > Could each of us please be a bit more measured and forgiving when responding. > It seems a few words have been selected which caused more offense than > intended. > I remember Jeff McKenna once saying that he

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How to retire membership status?

2018-06-22 Thread María Arias de Reyna
El vie., 22 jun. 2018 23:35, Cameron Shorter escribió: > > Maria, re the Code-of-Conduct, I agree with Christian. Rewriting it to > create rules which consider all future opportunities for human conflict is > utopian, impractical and ultimately unachievable. > I agree with that. But a static

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How to retire membership status?

2018-06-22 Thread Cameron Shorter
Could each of us please be a bit more measured and forgiving when responding. It seems a few words have been selected which caused more offense than intended. I remember Jeff McKenna once saying that he sometimes takes a step back from the keyboard for a day or so before responding, and being

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How to retire membership status?

2018-06-22 Thread Christian Willmes
I do not think this is about the CoC. It is about if and how a valid request by a community member is handled/answered (or not). This is a matter of transparency and openness on the one side, and assumed things like respect, manners, decency, or just civil good behavior of holding to a given

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How to retire membership status?

2018-06-22 Thread Andrea Aime
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:51 AM, María Arias de Reyna wrote: > I think this email, cited by Sara Safavi, from Marc Vloemans [1] is just >> unbelievable and thus unacceptable to this community. >> > Personally I agree with you that it was an uncomfortable situation easy to > misinterpret. I