Re: [Fwd: Resignation from GNOME Foundation Membership Committee]

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 15:36, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Mike Newman">
> 
> > On a personal note I'm also resigning because I don't enjoy waking up to a
> > mailbox full of rubbish asking me on what basis am I qualified to make
> > decisions, why I hate some community member or other, why I'm part of the
> > gnome foundation when I can't write code, and other less polite things
> > involving all sorts of unpleasant things which I won't bore the board with
> > :) All pretty childish stuff. I could of course spend time responding to
> > the more sensible mails among these, but I somehow doubt it would help.
> 
> This is really disappointing, I'm perplexed that this kind of behaviour
> could happen in our close-knit community. Personal attacks on contributors -
> regardless of the 'glamour' factor of their task - is unkind, unfair, and
> wholly inappropriate.
> 
> I hope that everyone groks the difficulty of handling this process for the
> first time. Mistakes will be made, problems will arise. That's part of the
> challenge of getting it right.
> 
> A fair bit of this controversy is due to misunderstandings. It seems that
> Elliot was not informed of, or did not understand the importance of the
> application process, and one of the committee members misunderstood some
> points in the guidelines about contributions under employment.
> 
> These are small problems, little hurdles on the way to making this whole
> Foundation thing work. We need contributors to help that along, we need
> active members of the community involved as Foundation members, and we need
> confidence in the process.
> 
> I hope that Mike receives an apology for the crap he's received, and that
> more confidence is bestowed on the Foundation Membership Committee.

Well if my questioning of the rejection of Bruce Perens on IRC a week or
two ago was that part this I apologize for that. 

Thanks for the effort Mike and I hope you will not be totally
discouraged by this.

Christian