Election results

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Sun Feb 26 20:24:02 UTC 2006


On 26-Feb-06, at 12:00 PM, Cees De Groot wrote:

> On 2/24/06, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
>> Thank you Göran for your vote of encouragement.  But actually I'm  
>> pretty
>> happy to be able to turn to other things for a while.
>
> To be frank, I wouldn't have minded at all not to be re-elected :-).
> But still, I don't like this particular bit of the outcome at all -
> one of the hardest-working guys on the board didn't get re-elected.
> That means that either the community does not want hard-working people
> on the board, or - more likely - that there's a disconnect here.
The problem with any sort of democracy is that it essentially a  
popularity contest and hard work is rarely valued as it should be.  
Ken has done lots of important quiet behind the scenes stuff and I  
know from too much experience that that is never a way to look  
important.

Fortunately there is nothing whatsoever to prevent the board from  
listening to people not favoured by the voting mechanism, nor to stop  
good people from just getting on with helping.

The only privileges I can see for being on the board are the salary,  
the chauffeuse driven car and the apartment in Monaco.


tim
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