mismatch of vision.

Stef

> Hi,
>
> I want to thank the people that voted for me but I will leave the  
> squeakfoundation board.
> I would like to thank the people that gave money to the foundation  
> when it was not even something
> that was based on election. Thank you all for all the trust you put  
> on me. Really this was a warm feeling
> and I took my responsibility quite seriously. I had dreams but I  
> could not make them reality. But
> may be my dreams were dangerous too.
>
> I have a different vision of what the foundation can do to push  
> squeak. This is already a moment that I was
> hesitating to leave (and put myself my own deadline). I realize  
> that this is  weakening the foundation
> but I prefer to leave now and focus on cool other stuff. Still I  
> encourage everybody to support the foundation
> and I'm sure that some cool stuff will happen.
>
> Now you can know what I think in a nutshell and I'm sure other  
> boarder will rectify me if I'm wrong.
> I wanted the foundation to push some development of infrastructural  
> elements (process for
> release team supported tools [1], fixing infrastructural aspects,  
> test server, MC2...) but
> on one hand, there is not enough money (but we could collect money)  
> and more important
> other consider that this can destroy the community (which can be  
> true).
> 	
> I got mad because if the foundation cannot afford to help the  
> people doing the dirty work
> (integrating bugfixes and creating new release) then I give it a  
> limited interest. I think that this is a dream
> to think that Squeak happen just like that. Of course one can argue  
> that open-source is to work the nights on your
> night sleep and it is easy to say that if this is not fun to do it  
> we should stop doing it, but it is another to do
> not without any support. And the foundation could have acknowledge  
> this fact. Since it did not, I went mad
> and deciding to spend my good energy in better stuff.
>
> 	[1] seriously the release team CANNOT continue to work the way it  
> worked.
> 	I do not want to see marcus burnt like that and get sick of  
> Smalltalk.
> 	I prefer to see him inventing the next squeak compiler and for  
> that we need better tools to support
> 	and invent the process. Because we can invent a lot of fun stuff too.
>
> I think that the board will do a good job without me. So if you  
> want to organize an election at least we will have
> some animation and opportunity to talk (or communicate).
>
> Stef
>
> PS: if some of you are interested in gathering some money so that  
> we get something done please contact me
> off-list.
>
>
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