<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 13px; ">You are promising a lot for someone not into politics. You are also<br>taking a lot of time talking about other things that are unrelated to<br>Cuis. Not that any of these are wrong. It just makes me think a bit...<br>and I have a question for you.<br><br>Why didn't you run for the Board?<br></div></blockquote><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Because it would not be ethical.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">The purpose of the board is to represent and to liaise and co-ordinate with the community. In other words, a world without the board, is supposed to made better and nicer place to be in by the fact that the board is there. This is because the board is present to ensure that the community is represented and people and ideas are treated fairly. In a world without the board "charisma", cliques, and historical founders, simply override.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">The board is not a management committee, which you appoint in order to get things done within a specific remit, like putting on an event, or producing a release. Our board is there for oversight and co-ordination within the community. So you would expect them to co-ordinate and oversee, not to dictate.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">The fact that you suggest that I run for the board to represent my ideas, tells me several things. Firstly it tells me that the board is not doing its job, because apparently I now need to be elected to have a voice, and to get my way. When in actual fact the board is supposed to be there in order to give me a voice, since the board represents and liaises with the community and that includes me.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">So I should be able to trust the board, that if an issue comes up that concerns me, I will not be excluded form the discussion, and I will be invited to participate. For example, when this release, "pharo is ahead of us" debate that panicked the board last year occurred, I was actually on holiday. (In actual fact we were way ahead of pharo in many respects at the time, but that is another issue) The fact that I didn't engage with this debate, because I felt it was irrelevant and I was on holiday and the board had already supported my positon, after giving my proposal due consideration, is something I should have been able to rely on. The board is supposed to provide more stability to the community not less.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">You see if an issue comes up, such as how to sort out the next release, for example. It is the boards job to gather all that are concerned and to make sure that no voice is left unheard, and to make a considered decision to the satisfaction of all concerned.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">So, if I was to get elected on the basis of wanting to represent my own interests, and my own ideas.I would not even vote for myself.</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; ">Keith</div><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 13px; "> </div></body></html>