Re: [OSCOM] Sandro steps back

Henri Bergius wrote:

> Dear Michi,
>
> On 9/7/06, Michael Wechner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The problem is still the same, that the current board (Gregor, Henri,
>> Christian, Paul) is not moving their
>> asses at all, although that would be their responsibility and I really
>> do not understand how one can be so
>> lame.
>
>
> I don't believe anybody being or not being on the board is the issue
> here. The issue simply is that nobody - not the current board nor the
> people who volunteered last spring - really has time for organizing a
> big event.


well, I do have time. Does it matter that I am not on the board anymore?
I organized the very first conference together with Eric without any
of the current board members. Do you remember that?. So, can't OSCOM put
some trust in me and give me the USD 19'000 to organize a nice conference?

>
> As I've said earlier, I'm willing to step aside as soon as a plausible
> plan for OSCOM's continuation is presented. However, lacking that I
> want to remain on the board to oversee how the association is
> dismatled.


well, you are a board member and hence should know what you want to do. But
you rather sound like a chicken to me (please apologize for being so rude
and you being so friendly but I don't know how else to provoke you to 
get out of your chicken mood).

Do something or just get out of the way. Be a viking ;-)

>
> Quoting my previous blog:
>
>> Will be interesting to see what happens. There are lots of promising 
>> communities, like
>> Microformats dealing with some parts of CMS-related standardization. 
>> A domain-specific
>> cross-project roof organization like OSCOM could also be made to 
>> work, as the example of
>> Freedesktop.org has shown us.
>
>
>> In any case, I had a good time with OSCOM. It is a shame to see its 
>> demise.
>
>
> But these things aside, I think it would be much better to stop the
> finger-pointing and make real decisions. The options, as I see them
> are:
>
> * Some members (or potential members) of OSCOM commit themselves to
> arranging a conference or other activities
> * The organization is dismantled


+1

Michi

>
> Of course we can also just pretend things are working and keep the
> association in its present undead state, but I don't see it as the
> right solution.



>
>
>> Michi
>
>
> /Henri
>


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