With respect to the staff point: FYI, my view of the staff role is that we are agnostic with respect to policy. With respect to process, we have an obligation to ensure that processes are protected, and where developed by the community, ensure equal access, transparenc, and respect for a rules-based framework for interaction in which every stakeholder is on an equal footing with every other. To that end, you have and will see periodic interventions about process and procedure, and sometimes suggestion of a new process or procedure in order to provide further avenues for the community to engage on issues or to solve a problem which the current process seems inadequate to facilitate. As to what policy to debate, and what to say, on this I have no views - not only as staff, but generally personally as well, though my personal views are effectively nil as it is my job to help you put yours forward, not to have any of my own put forward. On 13/05/07, Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org> wrote:

On 2007-05-11 08:12:29 -0700, Roberto Gaetano wrote:

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From the attitude point of view, what is appalling, looking from the outside, is how a couple of people have inherited the Jeff William syndrome,

*snip*

If there's anything that this discussion shows, then it's a total lack of willingness to build a compromise solution in the face of differences of opinion, and some worrying lack of neutrality on the staff side.

The fact that you have nothing better to do than pull the Jeff Williams card speaks more (and quite disappointingly so!) to your ability to be objective, show leadership, and respect different opinions, than it speaks to the RALO's functioning overall.

(Though I'll admit that one conclusion that one might draw from this entire debacle is that the RALO structure as such is neither functional, nor robust. One of the underlying reasons for the hesitation to sign the MoU on FITUG's behalf is that I was struggling whether I should recommend returning the ALS accreditation right away.)

Regards, -- Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>

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