goran at krampe.se wrote:

>Hi guys!
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>I said I was going to post and explain why I am stepping down, so this
>is it. :)
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>The SqF board is actually functioning pretty good today. The number of
>people involved seems about right and it is getting better and better
>organized I would say. But of course, we can always do better - there
>are plenty of things we intended to do, but simply haven't gotten around
>to yet or failed to do.
>
>My reason for stepping down and not going for re-election is simply that
>I don't feel I have enough time to spend and that I can spend the little
>time I have much better on other things now that the board is in a
>"working state".
>
>It is also based on the fact that we *need* to rotate - I am the
>"oldest" trying to guide/lead/coordinate (note the emphasis on *trying*,
>I don't claim that I ever did a very good job, but I tried) since SqC
>and I don't want to be perceived as a "power hungry <insert choice of
>word here>" as some have painted me to be.
>
>All the way from the start I have only had good intentions behind trying
>to get this community working, and I have had no personal benefits of
>any kind through this work (AFAICT).
>
>When the SqF was trying to form and in my view failed miserably (the
>closed list was suddenly discussing the website instead of how to
>actually form the SqF - and only half hearted at that) I and Cees took
>the initiative to "grab" the rudder (the
>Castaways/Islanders/Coordinators "coup" or whatever you want to call it)
>and I *don't regret it at all* because we actually succeeded:
>
>- We got the Team model in place which seems to be working quite well
>despite some team's lack of progress. Personally I find that to be a big
>enabler, and I take a little bit of personal pride in it. :)
>
>- We have created a lot of infrastructure (box1 and now box2, website,
>file area, domain hosting, source.squeakfoundation.org yaddayadda) which
>currently is controlled by our community. This is hard work, believe me,
>and Cees, Ken, Bruce, Jason and everyone else involved should have a
>great applause for that.
>
>- We have a paypal account with money on it that is used to support that
>infrastructure. In other words the community is running itself. And we
>have more funds coming into place through the more recent efforts by
>especially Stephane Ducasse.
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Which remind me that we don't have 'donate' page with a link to the 
paypal account on squeak.org.
What are the links etc ?
Karl
PS Thanks for all effort so far, Göran :-)

>- We have a formal relationship with www.softwarefreedom.org to work on
>license issues, currently there is an ongoing effort concerning
>cryptography stuff. This is a really good thing.
>
>- We have a real formal entity through ESUG. Sure, in the long run we
>should be standing on our own feet. but it is still a great step
>forward. Thanks to especially Stephane.
>
>- We have a functioning board today. That is a fact.
>
>...and much more that I am probably forgetting.
>
>But enough of that. What is happening now then? Well, we are keeping our
>promise and are stepping down in order to get a more "democratic
>footing" in the community. Exactly how this election is going to work is
>in the hands of the Election team, but I trust them to come up with a
>good solution.
>
>Hopefully we get two new brave souls stepping forward and joining the
>current 5 that are working quite hard - yes, I don't deny that I
>personally am hoping for the current 5 to be re-elected because they are
>still hungry and have already proven that they are doing a good job. But
>we will see. :)
>
>Back to my personal focus - I am trying to focus my efforts and having
>stepped off the SqF board and also handed over the leadership of the
>Network team (now joined with File team and renamed to I/O Team :)) to
>Cees, this means I can put my effort in:
>
>- Participation in teams. Website and I/O mainly.
>- Maintenance of packages. Especially SqueakMap, KomHttpServer and
>Httpview2.
>
>And I will also try to work, simply as a member of our community, on all
>the issues listed here:
>	http://swiki.krampe.se/castaways/2
>
>That list is still very much valid and a bit forgotten IMHO.
>
>regards, Göran
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