[seedig] Pettition according to ToR, Art 7.

[Sonia H.]

Dear all,

As a community member and outgoing SEEDIG Executive Committee member I
fully support this petition.

In addition to what's outlined in the petition;

Mr Caf has made untruthful comments on why I didn't run for the ExCo after
privately asking me why I wasn't running and receiving the answer (I had
told him I couldn't commit as much time anymore). He saw no problem in
publicly stating I (with other previous Ex Co members) was leaving due to
transparency and governance issues.

I kept silent in order to protect trust in processes and the committee but
now I see this only fueled more wrongdoings. Another reason I'm leaving the
committee is Mr Caf's success in halting the work and progress which has
personally frustrated me for months.

Dear Narine,

Before making suggestions I recommend you read the ToR and understand the
processes involved. This is the part where we see whether the community
agrees with the petition; Mr Caf has the right and time to make a defense
and only later there will be a formal vote to see whether he is released
from his duties or not.

Best regards,
Su Sonia Herring

On 16 Dec 2019 Mon at 19:44 Aleksandra Ivanković via seedig <
seedig at lists.rnids.rs> wrote:

> I support the petition.
>
> Best,
> Aleksandra Ivanković
>
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 12:31, Dušan Stojičević <dusan at dukes.in.rs> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
> --
Su Sonia Herring
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