[seedig] Pettition according to ToR, Art 7.

[Dušan Stojičević]

Dear all,

 

It's always nice to see peaceful, politically correct mailings and calls for
calming down, I tend to agree with them all by default, but the problem will
not fly away itself, if we don't tackle the essence of the issues that you
wrote about. It is seen in many initiatives with multistakeholder roots,
it's not first time that I am seeing this in IG surroundings - move the
problems under the carpet until the carpet reach the ceilings.

If some people like to think that my mailings are harsh and I am attacking
people - so be it, I can easily step down as list admin and leave this
community, as I already stepped down from any single role that I had in this
initiative so far (exe com member, web admin, FB admin etc) leaving room for
new fresh people. As someone who was contributing to this initiative from
the very beginning, the growth of initiative should not depend on me. All
those positions that I had were voluntary positions, and I don't have any
personal benefit out of those roles, except work. And I am not keen to
support the initiative where people likes to be in a position, plays as
"wannabe politicians" and at the same time, they don't show intention to
work. That's not what we was trying to build. Above that, to use that
position to criticize someone else's work - this right is not earned just by
position. Therefore, let see what is hidden under the carpet - let start
with accountability of people in positions. This is part of democratic
process, good practice, transparency and good governance, isn't it?

 

According to ToR Art 7., and as a voting member, I am initiating a petition
for removing individual member Dusan Caf from executive committee.

 

Reasons:

1.      According to Art 4.1 of ToR, item d. 

As organizer and official representative of host at Ljubljana meeting (his
organization was paying the bills for meeting, known fact), and active
member of executive committee, he didn't provide the financial report for
more than a year. On the website, this report was seen after SEEDIG meeting
in Bucharest, somewhere in 3Q this year (date of publishing is somewhere in
late July 2019.).

Without any doubts, harm is done to the SEEDIG. For example, SEEDIG could
have benefited from an UN grant (we heard about that in Bucharest); I hear
that this did not happen and that the delayed publication of the report
contributed to this. 

Clearly, by delaying the financial reporting for so long, there can be
raised fair suspicion and inquiry on how the host was handling the money.
But, I still want to believe that laziness is the reason, nothing else.

2.      According to Art 4.1 of ToR, item g and h

Instead of consulting the community about all significant matters, this
member of executive committee wrote a personal blog, raising concerns around
SEEDIG in public. More than that, he was writing personal emails to the
sponsors, without knowledge of community or, to the best of my knowledge,
rest of executive committee. The emails was forwarded to me by some
sponsors, with whom I have very active business. Blog can be found here
https://blog.caf.si/2019/11/reflections-on-my-two-years-in-seedig.html. 

If you are surprised with this blog from November, it's exactly what is
regulated by those items g and h in ToR - you should not be, but you are.
Also you can easily see that, roughly, half of this blog is not true (there
are mailings in the archive that proves he wrongly explained certain moments
in SEEDIG history, which he was not taking part) and half of the blog are
alleged issues and problems which he NEEDED to share with community and
colleagues in exe com. This way, without knowledge of entire community, he
criticizes many thing, expressing his opinion based on mostly wrong facts,
and he created fake news, the worst kind - mix of "a little bit of truth"
and "a little bit of fake" makes the "perfect deal". More on that, the blog
was shared on social networks by some of the sponsors with a lot of question
marks about the future of SEEDIG, and by that, he was ruining hardly built
trust between sponsors and SEEDIG as initiative.

I don't know how it went with members of exe com or other members of SEEDIG,
but I was spending a lot of my time to answer to some of the sponsors,
connected with them in my line of business, that truth is not written in
that blog.

3.      According to Art 4.1 of ToR, item h

Recent meddling in election process, by asking for a report which is not
regulated by ToR, and to the best of my knowledge, not in any decision of
exe com, through the mail sent to the list: there is a concern that he was
trying to intimidate the chair and all members of election committee. At
least, by asking that, he was putting pressure to the election committee and
all members, obviously not happy with the preliminary results, jeopardizing
the whole election process and undermining the work of election committee.
This is a very bad and dangerous practice shown from this exe com member,
and he should be removed just for that. 

4.      According to Art 4.2 of ToR

It's really questionable if this member of executive was fulfilling
obligation of 5-6 working hours per week: If the regular obligations was not
finished on time, as described in the reason under point 1., he obviously
was not fulfilling this obligation also. 

Conclusion - according to ToR, he is not fit to serve as exe com member,
obviously he is not fit to work in a team and what is worse, he is putting
the whole SEEDIG initiative in danger by his "personally initiated"
(in)activities. It will be a big danger if he stays one more year of his
mandate as a member.

 

In line with Art 7.3 in the ToR, I ask and invite community members to back
up this petition - it needs 10% of the total number of members of this list
to trigger a vote on removing Dusan Caf from the exe com. If you are concern
about SEEDIG, this is a concrete way to express your concerns and clean up
what is hidden under the carpet.

 

Cheers,

Dusan Stojicevic

 

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