Hi Caleb, Calm down and tone down!
The issues you have expressed on the various opinions and sentiments of 'members' of the West Nile Foundation/Forum can still be resolved in one way or the other. True to the sense we are averse to big gatherings beyond our micro-social barriers. How I wish we could turn up to calls for meetings like we turn up for meat-eatings. Anyhow these and other sentiments are the complexities of a diverse society. My Brother Caleb, kindly do not throw in the towel...it may be the worst thing to do. I think there are still people out there, including you and me, who can take one more stride. Perhaps we need a third person to fulfill God's quorum of three...and He will be in the midst. Just make the third-last call for an open meeting to re-present, discuss and adopt the documentary instruments and prospective projects of the proposed West Nile Foundation. Circulate that call on the net and let 'members' confirm their attendance on line. Even if 10 persons gather, let's find room to formally adopt these instruments by physically appending our signatures to them and we move on. Over to you my Brother... Aggrey Adrale --- On Wed, 6/4/11, alaka caleb <[email protected]> wrote: > From: alaka caleb <[email protected]> > Subject: [WestNileNet] Conspirancy of silence > To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, 6 April, 2011, 9:18 > Dear members, > > Some time last year, we tried to build a consensus on > payment of > subscription fees of 50,000/= Uganda Shillings for West > Nile > Foundation. This idea was vehemently opposed by several > members. Some > even pretended that they had never seen the strategic plan, > the > memorandum and articles of association of WNF. Other > members suggested > that we should go slow on issues of money. As a result > to-date we have > no secretariat to co-ordinate our activities. We can't > implement or > move any thing. Members what do we do?. Should we all > abandon this > idea of having an umbrella organization. We have resisted > all good > ideas, from West Nile night, the Investment Club, and even > the Science > Cafe which records miserable attendances. We are > comfortable and we > actively involve our selves in smaller or sectarian > organizations, > when it comes to the bigger picture we sit back and savor > the idea of > our leaders failing. We have forgotten that Kigs uses money > to host > the West Nile net. He and Gordon Obitre-Gama had to import > a server > from USA to host the net. We have taken advantage of their > magnanimity > and abused it. What if they one time get fed up. By now we > should have > had our own website. I think the idea of a West Nile > Foundation and > the West Nile Net or forum should be discarded. Some of us > were useful > to our community without these organizations, We can > still be useful > without them. Lets agree to dissolve the Forum and the > Foundation. > Lets concentrate on our Local Counties, Districts, Old > boys/girls > organizations in our old schools were we are more > comfortable, tribes > and probably religion. Without payment of subscription > fees, we have > no right to belong to and hold an organization and its > leadership > accountable. Lets wind up the WNF and if our treasurer has > contributions by some members let him arrange to refund > them. We > resisted the idea of a Ministry for West Nile affairs and > now other > regions have Ministries. West Nile doesn't deserve us. We > lied to > ourselves that we are of the Golden generation. But at this > rate we > are worse than our ' Kasamvu' (Sugar cane cutter) > relatives. For they > were not as enlightened as we are. > _______________________________________________ > WestNileNet mailing list > [email protected] > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted > them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not > responsible for them in any way. > _______________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________
