On 29/08/18 10:22, Reinhard Müller wrote:
Am 2018-08-29 um 11:05 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
If you don't have time to meet people personally, it is inevitable there will be some misunderstandings in electronic communications, especially for those trying to squeeze too many things into their life.
... says the person who didn't attend any of the two General Assemblies he was invited to, because, well, he had no time.
Yes, I do fully agree that a lot of misunderstandings, name-calling, mud-throwing and wasted time could have been avoided if only you had tried to talk to people (in person or by email) before making complaints or accusations in the public.
Do you notice how in my own message, I made significant effort to avoid being personal: instead of a focus on Bernhard's situation, I draw upon a mixed set of examples from multiple people. But I didn't want to emphasize other people personally, so I left out their names. The focus of my message was clearly the practical problems with people having a "life term" in the GA.
Your reply does the complete opposite: not only is it very personal, it is also inaccurate, misleading, insulting and disparaging. For example, everybody knows I had already planned to go to the Balkans before the last-minute GA meeting was hastily arranged to avoid the elections. But I don't want to focus on that or myself, I want to bring back the two issues I raised:
- this type of thing (and your message is a great example) seems to be happening a lot with electronic communications. It also seems to happen far more frequently on the private mailing lists, that is one of the reason I'm using public channels. So you actually help demonstrate what I wrote and I thank you for doing so as I didn't want to start picking out examples like this that were sent privately on the GA list
- what do you think about the general issue of the "life term" in the GA? How do we avoid the organization becoming stale and ensure the people with the most energy and time to commit are able to get properly engaged in governance, attend meetings, propose motions or nominate for office?
Regards,
Daniel