Re: The constitution and the social contract
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:38:53PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > > We need a secretary, now, to deal with the current situation and to
> > > focus on procedure.
On 31-Oct-00, 04:56 (CST), Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> wrote:
> > We *have* one.
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:26:19AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> That's not completely obvious to those of us reading the lists.
Well, maybe it wasn't obvious, but it should be obvious now. Or
do you think I'm lying?
> There's been no response to several urgent questions regarding the
> current ballot, not even "I'm stuck in private business, back in two
> weeks, please consider everything on hold", which would be perfectly
> acceptable in our volunteer organization.
So?
Personally, I'm working a full time job development job, holding down
an infrastructure (network ops) job that needs someone else to fill it,
and working a part time teaching job. And, I'm married, and I spend
time with my wife.
I'm stealing a few minutes right now, that I could be putting towards
something more useful, because I feel like it. But that's just me.
> We have no right or ability to force participation from our members,
> but it would be polite for someone in such a (currently) critical
> position to ask for help when needed.
Sure, but given the negative remarks people have levelled at Darren,
this situation has [unfortunately] devolved below polite and supportive
communication.
> > There isn't any particular urgency for him to act at the moment, and
> > he wants to make sure that what he says next is as correct as possible.
>
> Actually there was an urgency. There isn't now, because the vote ended
> 10/23/2000, with no response from Darren after 10/10/2000 (unless I
> inadvertantly deleted something, which is quite possible, so feel free
> to correct me).
Almost anything Darren says is going to be taken as some kind of official
significance. I think he's most concerned with doing the right thing.
Thanks,
--
Raul
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