Dear Raoul,
I was not going to dignify your last email by giving attention to it but since you accused me of something which is absolutely false, I will start by saying that during your leadership it was fraught with lots of dictatorial abuses which I do not believe in spreading your dirty linen outside.
Instead of fighting for what will purportedly benefit you, as I'm aware you are putting yourself forward for consideration for the NCSG EC Position, you should have some retrospection about your leadership while so many of us served under you and you abused your office by making unilateral decisions. Again, I feel that you should be commending the current leadership for transparency and making it public that we want to appoint people to the NCSG PC, FC, EC roles.
I dare you to point out to me that during your term as Chair of NPOC where you were this transparent which is basically what we are trying to achieve here by trying to use this to help stimulate our membership.
You mentioned that Joan used an "Abritary Rules" and I dare say you to contradict the fact that both you and the current Chair Juan were beneficiaries of this said "Abritary Rules" as you were both on the NCSG EC then and I recall very well you sat on my membership application to be approved. In her defense, I believe she did this in the best interest of both of you to get your active administrative participation and loop back information to the NPOC EC.
I also dare you to dispute the fact that you did not serve on the NCSG EC and were a beneficiary of the arbitrary rule. So if you once served in that role, why are you trying to fight dirty to come back at all costs by trying to change the rules and goalpost?
When eventually I joined NPOC EC, I met that same "arbitrary rule" but learned it was as a tradition (as it was explained to me then) and you abused it. We have so many executive members during your term as Chair on this list that can attest to this with records of those abuses and we even have witnesses to you apologizing to me at an NPOC EC meeting for one of your excess abuses I was gracious enough not to report to the Ombudsman. Why did you apologize, I challenged some of your abusive processes and since then you have been on an attacking prowl without clear justification or evidence to proof otherwise. So, I dare you, if you have anything against me, please put it forward.
@All NPOC Member, I believe that we all in the Executive Committee are accountable to you and what we are doing here is trying to be more transparent with members and carrying them along in our decision making processes by giving them these opportunities while still having leadership oversight in cases where needed. This was never done during Raoul's time as Chair and I will say that he who is without sin should cast the first stone. Since you cast the first stone, I have decided to cast mine to lay this matter to rest. Trust me, I will not reply to any email following this public encouragement you gave me the big courage to speak about your abuses as a leader who was never transparent to its members. At this point, I chose not to be bullied by you. Therefore, I will expect you to rather give credit to this EC for taking these steps and following the charter to the letter rather than following the lines of previous power abuses.
Again, @Raoul Plommer I dare you to show me where you ever announced CROP opportunities for members. Our members now see that we are making opportunities available to them and you are claiming we the current EC are not conforming to the rules and Charter.
@Raoul Plommer , you left the NPOC EC over two years ago, and in different email exchanges, we have pleaded with you to give us the Control Panel for the NPOC's website which you keep claiming there is no Control Panel. In a logical clime, when you leave office, you should submit all digital assets in your possession. We should not be begging you to give us to digital assets that belongs to NPOC claiming the host does not have a control panel which is false. All web host has the opportunity to provide each website a control panel even if it is a VPS server.
To wrap things up, it has been a while since you left the NPOC Executive Council and things have been very calm as the EC has worked collaboratively and harmoniously to deliver some good results, especially our active participation on the policy side of things. In fact, this decision to make open these appointments was decided because we chose to collaborate and resist some form of dictatorship instead of a multistakeholder approach. It is my hope we don’t continue to have such derogatory conversations and attacks via mailing lists in the future.
Now to respond to your false accusations on the membership list which we have put to rest a long time ago, may I refer you once again to click the link below to read the information the Chair (Juan) posted about efforts we have undertaken to resolve the membership list despite the membership CRM issues we have had in the past. Juan himself was also a membership chair at some time before and if it was a problem he was aware of, we have tried our best to resolve it as best as we can despite the fact that those records predate some of us who are still young in the system unlike you who have been in the NCSG EC for long and yet never took action to resolve the issues.
in case you missed the link, I have taken a screenshot for you to give us more credit for the good job we are trying to do.