Re: [atlarge-discuss] Question 2 for Jamie

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 09:55 p.m. 27/07/2002 +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
>On 2002-07-27 12:23:26 +1200, Joop Teernstra wrote:
>
>>You said something on this list that I believe to be
>>unsubstantiated (that Vittorio had "full support") and I ask you
>>to substantiate it with an archive URL. If the other panel members indeed 
>>expressed such support, then it is only fair the voters
>>know about each one's position.
>
>Your silly games about handing over access to the web site to the
>panel have been going on for several months now, and we've had some
>rounds of this even before the current panel was elected.

I have made the website for the whole membership,  not for the interim 
Panel to control, especially not for a candidate who runs for office and 
wants to control the website  prior to an election.

It is my duty to protect the mouthpiece of the organization from capture 
until a proper way of content-control *by the whole panel* is established.

An undemocratic Chair with 2 supporters and silence of the other Panel 
members is not sufficient.

It is indeed "the IDNO all over again" , because a website, like a 
radio-station in a coup-prone country,  is always the first target of a 
takeover. It is really all that the icannatlarge has at this moment.

If you think I am in the Chair's way, you bet I am.
This is not a game, this is about democracy for all elected Panel members.

Vittorio has tried to foist highly undemocratic Panel Rules on us. A 
minority quorum. Near automatic Chairmanship. A 2 day voting period on the 
Panel. These "rules" are not acceptable.

I will immeditately hand over the website keys to whoever a majority of the 
new panel will designate.
A transparent and clear majority.

I will call for  new volunteer webmasters myself and the Panel can make the 
selection. For the moment, it is me who has the monkey on his back.

Website control is not something that a Panel Chair can appropriate just by 
asking and taking the silence for assent.



--Joop


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