Wolf Ludwig ha scritto:
After facing some problems with the EURALO-list, Jeanette and I would like to forward you the following announcement:
Hi all,
thanks to Jeanette for taking the initiative. I fully agree with the summary of our late discussions. Being aware about Jeanette's time constraints I personally would prefer the option of a co-chair.
Some preliminary reactions (just arrived in San Juan, very tired :) ). I am fine with whatever person wants to be Chair, including you and Jeanette, as long as this person can agree to some basic points. It is clear that, unfortunately, there has been a sort of a split among two groups of ALSes. Some people were a bit bitter after the elections - that happens in all elections, and maybe has been overcome now, but I think that we have to commit to work to be inclusive. In other words, I would like that whoever wants to be Chair explicitly commits to working by rough consensus, if not by full, and tries to bridge this sort of divide that has emerge. Also, one main activity for our next months should be outreach: we should increase diversity, bring many new organizations in the EURALO, and become more representative and thus more credible. I would like to hear what you think about this, and hopefully your commitment to this working programme and philosophy :-) About the co-chair issue, I don't have a problem with it in practice, but I am a bit concerned by the idea of starting to "bend" our Bylaws, because that might lead to further controversies if we start to adapt them in other ways. I would be happier if we could have just one person formally elected as Chair, with the other sharing the work. Maybe we could rotate after the first term ends. Ciao, -- vb. Vittorio Bertola - vb [a] bertola.eu <-------- --------> finally with a new website at http://bertola.eu/ <--------