Re: [atlarge-discuss] Re-elect?

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

Dear Danny

I don't even attempt to argue with you.

It was a short period of time, but we got little accomplished.

And to tell you the truth... I have a wife, I have 3 young children... you
and everyone else do me a favour if you don't vote for me.

I just want this organisation to get good honest people who will try to
uphold the case for user representation and the concept of an AtLarge.

I've already said: I think the real leaders are those who work in their own
(diverse) regions and achieve outreach and new members.

This is about bottom up.

So if I lose this election: good for my wife and children, and good for the
people who beat me!

So I don't argue with you. I want to participate (in some way) as do other
people.

Good luck to everyone!

Richard Henderson

----- Original Message -----
From: <DannyYounger@cs.com>
To: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: [atlarge-discuss] Re-elect?


> Five of the seven current Interim Panelists are standing for re-election:
>
> Vittorio Bertola
> Satyajit Gupta
> Richard Henderson
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> James Love
>
> These Panelists had a job to do:
>
> 1. guiding an outreach campaign
> 2. drafting, within 2 months, Bylaws proposals to be voted on by the
> membership
> 3. establishing a secure voting system
> 4. appointing a webmaster
> 5. promoting Forum discussion
> 6. arranging for the election of their successor Panel
>
> Ask yourselves if these tasks have been successfully accomplished by those
> standing for re-election.  Do they deserve your vote for another term?
>
> The issue of diversity has been raised in this election process.  As a
matter
> of policy as put forth in the White Paper, "Mechanisms should be
established
> to ensure international participation in decision making."  Did these
> panelists act to "ensure" such diversity?
>
> It is certainly possible that only North Americans will be elected to the
new
> eleven-member panel simply because no safeguards were established to
protect
> the regional approach to representation.  Such a result would immediately
> serve to destroy the credibility of this organization.  As much as I am
> partial to the views of many North Americans standing for election, an
> effective capture of the leadership positions by a single block will not
> serve the long-term best interests of the global At-Large community.
>
> This election process has been rushed through by Panelists that failed to
> accomplish anything else during their tenure, and even this effort is
poorly
> planned and poorly executed.  Do these Panelists deserve a new 12-month
term?
>  Perhaps... we are all human, and we all make mistakes... but give some
> thought to the new entrants in this election -- they certainly can't muck
it
> up any worse.
>
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