Vittorio Bertola wrote Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:38:
Unfortunately, the only one that was circulated to the EURALO list (or to me in any form) is the one sent on March 5. If there is a newer one, then we should at least get it before we are given two days to comment upon it :-)
And anybody had the chance to express his/her opinion on the given application already. The same is true for the application of APTI, Bucarest, were we had no comments from the list or board members neither.
And who decided that ALS applications are to be discussed privately and only by a subset of the EURALO Board, rather than by all EURALO Board members?
In the case of France@Large the staff informed us that “Unfortunately ... unable to send you the Due Dilligence form earlier because there were some inconsistencies in the application” (on 4.04.08). Our verifications brought us to the same result and therefore it was suggested to look for some clarifications first before the issue is posted on the list. I don’t see any “private” character is this procedure. And everybody, the board and you included, could have told us any further opinion on the subject.
I see four people in your list above... well, never mind.
Actually four people from the board plus one (who prefered not being mentioned) and three staff members makes even – sorry! – eight.
I am a EURALO Board member and this ALS application was never put up for discussion in two months. I would expect that the Board takes decisions on regional advice, not a self-appointed subgroup of people. In the absence of Board discussion, nothing has happened.
Any application regarding our region was forwarded to the list (CLUSIT, APTI and France@Large) and any member ALS or board member can post a position on it. BTW I cannot enforce any discussions which are not suggested or promoted by others as well. Let's call it "shared responsibility" ;-)
In any case, in the application that was circulated to the EURALO list on March 5 I really see no grounds for rejection. If there are other documents, please forward them to the list.
Attached please find the DD form dated March 27 which was the basis of our discussions and considerations of the given case. Regards, Wolf comunica-ch phone +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig www.comunica-ch.net http://blog.allmend.ch - Digitale Allmend