Hi all!

As you are aware the time for me on the board is running out quickly and
the election is coming up. I have a guilty conscience about one thing
that I really need to clear before stepping off the board, and that is
the survey to the Stakeholder contacts I sent out on 2005-09-09.

I have now (finally) gathered up and published the survey and the
results on the old castaways swiki (wherever, we can move it). Only 4
months late... sigh:

	http://swiki.krampe.se/castaways/26

As you can see only Stephane, Yoshiki, Craig, Dan (through Craig) and
Scott responded. Avi responded that he was working on it but got stuck
due to thoughts about how to draw the line between personal opinions and
community representation - and then I assume he simply forgot about it.

We got no replies (and I sent out at least two reminders) from Andreas,
Steve, Diego or Jeff. John responded that he had no time.

I would also like to note that one of the two reminders was badly
formulated by me, and Avi set me duly straight (and I apologized
carefully), and one could also question the short timeframe for
answering.

Finally a very, very personal comment on this:

I think it was a disappointing result. Not the answers that came in, but
the lack of responses.

One reason for me not publishing this at the time is of course also the
lack of responses, but that is not an excuse - I should have published
it anyway.

One other thing I would like noted is that Andreas explicitly did not
"acknowledge" the Coordinators-group in any way when we contacted him as
a contact person for Croquet and Tweak, but he took the role anyway as
an "envoy". I would only assume that goes for the current board too
(after the merge with Stephane and Noury).

So personally, when I read the recent posts about decision processes
etc, I do it in the light of the above - with a tired ironic smile on my
face.

regards, Göran