[OSGeo-Discuss] withdrawal from Board election

[Silvia Franceschi]

+ 1 for Maxi.

Please do not accept Jeff's withdrawal, I hope he can join the board again
and go on with all the things he did in the past!

Silvia


On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de> wrote:

> Open letter to Jeff McKenna.
>
>
> Dear Jeff:
>
>
> I am so sad about the situation that led you to ask about the withdrawal.
>
>
> All of us, OSGeo members, no matter the position on the organization, are
> volunteers.
>
> We volunteer our time, our knowledge, our resources, our energy, sometimes
> even our family.
>
> We don’t make comparisons between the someone that took one minute to make
> a contribution, with the other someone who took 5 minutes. Maybe this last
> statement its not 100% true, the exception I see is when we nominate a
> person for the board and we want the rest of the community to notice the
> contributions that are done by the nominee.
>
>
> I was the first person to second your nomination, even when I was
> nominated myself, because, I don’t see any of the nominees as opponents, I
> see them as work team. From the fact that none of us participated on any
> attack of any kind I deduce that we have the same view about each other: we
> are a team.
>
>
> At the moment of your nomination, I see you trying to keep up to date the
> OSGeo wiki pages, twitting events, volunteering time for SAC, planning to
> go to a FOSS4G, doing administration of GSoC OSGeo program, applying for
> GCI program, asking for volunteers, commenting on my poster design, making
> the MapServer releases, and maybe more things that I don’t know about, but
> I am leaving at the end of this list: you were also helping the CRO.
>
> Because of your extra will to help and to give more to the community, how
> fortunate the CRO was to have your help for the charter member elections,
> specially this year, with so many new nominated people for charter member,
> and how unfortunate for you to be pointed at because of the helping
> inertia, keep on helping. Even when you stepped down from helping the CRO
> to accept the nomination.
>
>
> I must tell you that, not even in my wildest dreams I expected to be asked
> if I would accept to be part of the board, I consider that an honor, and it
> comes with a lot of responsibilities. If instead of you helping the CRO,
> was me the one helping the CRO, I would have done the same, step down to
> accept the nomination, basically because someone considers that my
> possible, non CRO, future contributions are more valuable than contributing
> helping the CRO.
>
>
> One thing that worries me is to see that helping so much, deserves an
> attack of such magnitude, and if its not for your “helping the CRO” reason,
> and, despite of being a reminder, the “stepping down from board past” that
> was started, might have been the cheery of this sour cake.
>
>
> I don’t know about that past, and I don’t ask, as I mentioned I have being
> only two years on the organization, I only know about what I have seen
> during these 2 years, and that knowledge gives me a feeling of what I want
> to see in the future.
>
>
> Based on what I see, and what I can foresee with you on the board, I am
> not withdrawing my second-ing your nomination made by Nicolas Bozon.
>
> As a person, I can understand, and I fully support what ever decision you
> make/made, to keep your mind in peace, after all things that have happened.
>
>
> There are other things that worries me for the future:
>
> - Members could refrain from nominating (or seconding a nomination)
> because when you nominate a person, you never ever want the person to be
> treated like that,
>
> - We all make mistakes, and the fear of being overly attacked because of
> that speck of sawdust, could refrain accepting the nomination.
>
> - Members could stop asking about what they feel is important because they
> don’t know how a question can be overly used or be considered  by others.
>
> This really was a lose-lose situation.
>
> You can be sure you that no matter what the outcome is, because, as
> charter member, I will do, within my capabilities and knowledge, what ever
> I can, for this kind of situation never to repeat in the future to any of
> us.
>
>
> Despite of being repetitive, I understand what you are going through, and
> you have my support and friendship.
>
>
> With all my respect and admiration, your friend and colleague,
>
> Celia Virginia Vergara Castillo.
>
> OSGeo Charter Member
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Jeff McKenna <
> jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear CRO,
>>
>> Please accept my withdrawal from the Board election.  I am sorry to cause
>> all of the problems so clearly explained by so many here publicly this
>> election.
>>
>> I wish to take the time now to thank all of the candidates for
>> volunteering their time for the OSGeo community.
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> -Jeff McKenna
>>
>>
>>
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