Dear all,
I understand there has been some exchange here about Matthias Kirschner's and my trip to Düsseldorf today. As I've been driving until now, I haven't been able to follow, but allow me to clarify some details from our perspective.
But first of all, a huge Thank You to Rainer who had done an amazing job at sorting and collecting the material (mostly merchandise) which Matthias and I were to bring to Berlin. It would not have been possible without Rainer, and I can not with words express how thankful we are for this.
This was the sole purpose of Matthias' and my trip to Düsseldorf: to use a van to transport material to Berlin. We had not been invited to or been asked to attend any other meetings. Only this morning did Matthias learn about a so called "extraordinary meeting" to take place at 7.30pm this evening.
I believed we had communicated we'd be in Düsseldorf only for some time on Monday afternoon (and possibly Tuesday morning if we didn't manage in time). Clearly, there was some miscommunication around this, and I would like to apologise to Rainer for this and to Michael for any problems this may have caused.
When Matthias and I finished our work already around 2pm, we therefore decided to cancel the hotel nights in Düsseldorf (which we could do at no cost), and instead use the daylight and go directly to Berlin. Before doing so, we also tried to get in touch with both Rainer and Michael, but were not able to reach either.
Both Matthias and I are happy to attend or invite to any meetings our community in the area feel would be relevant. We would however respectfully ask if those meetings can be communicated and planned well in advance.
To be clear: the FSFE is currently in a process of negotiating with one member of staff owing to some changes we're making in staff allocation. Neither myself nor Matthias are able to comment on any issue related to this prior to actually concluding those negotiations.
We do not believe it would be fair to the employee to discuss anything about this in public before concluding the talk with the employee. Doing so would also be at the risk of introducing legal liabilities for the organisation.
I beg for some understanding and patience in this matter, until such a time when we're able to share more information.
Sincerely,
Hello,
in a short notice my point of view:
I had noticed, that Jonas and Matthias planned to stay over night in Duesseldorf, shortly before and I asked the participants of our regular fellowship meeting on the evening of 30th of March, whether they are interested to meet them. I got a very positive reaction.
So I sent the attached Email at 31.03.2016 10:43.
Try to deliver my email to Jonas, I got two times a bounce notice like that:
" -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:03:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Mail Delivery System MAILER-DAEMON@fsfe.org To: anwalt@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de
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Reporting-MTA: dns; cavendish.fsfeurope.org X-Postfix-Queue-ID: BFAF863B9D1 X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; anwalt@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de Arrival-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:03:19 +0200 (CEST)
Final-Recipient: rfc822; jonas@coyote.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;jonas@fsfe.org Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; in1.heluna.com Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 Invalid sender - see http://www.openspf.org/Introduction
ForwardedMessage.eml Subject: Extraordinary fellowship meeting on 2016-04-04 From: RA Stehmann anwalt@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de Date: 31.03.2016 11:03 To: Jonas Oberg jonas@fsfe.org
Hello,
heard that you coming to Duesseldorf many participants of the regular fellowship meeting yesterday expressed the wish to see and talk with you.
Following a good tradition of the Duesseldorf fellowship I have convened an extraordinary fellowship meeting on 2016-04-04, 7:30 p.m. at the office. (If the office will be overcrowded, we can change the place easily.)
I am pleased about meeting you in Duesseldorf.
Kind regards Michael "
So I asked Rainer at the same day to forward my email to Jonas, and he did so.
The next thing I noticed in this case was the paper in the office of the FSFE in Duesseldorf.
I was out of my office yesterday afternoon.
Regards Michael
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 22:59, jonas@fsfe.org said:
But first of all, a huge Thank You to Rainer who had done an amazing job at sorting and collecting the material (mostly merchandise) which Matthias and I were to bring to Berlin. It would not have been possible without Rainer, and I can not with words express how thankful we are for this.
Rainer! Rainer! Rainer! Rainer!
Jonas!
Terrific! Great! Matze has explained it all to me, and I think it's great what you are doing. [sniff] Thank you, Rainer. I'll -- I'll never forget you.