[seedig] Launching a new election process: Call for volunteers for the Election Committee

[Peter Sterle]

Dear community,


the latest developments in the SEEDIG community really made me depressive.

At a time when we are experiencing ruthless processes of 
commercialization and monopolization of the Internet, and on the other 
hand the use of the Internet to suppress personal freedoms, is a 
community that her priority task should be to scrutinize these 
developments, trapped in squabbles, nudges and deliberate sowing of discord.

Probably I should have come forward earlier when a reputable member of 
the community was underunjust and baseless attack. But the petition was 
sobeyond all common sense that I assumed that reason would prevail and 
the matter would calm down. When another experienced and distinguished 
member of the community resigned from his position in 
executivecommittee, his resignation was immediately presented as 
something that was unrelated to the attack on other member of executive 
board and a petition. Again a new distortion of the facts. 
Unfortunately, in every community, there is a group that is prone to 
respondtoincentives stemming from low intentions. For various reasons: 
inexperience, personal vendetta, tracking his or her superior, or just 
an inability to resist herd instinct.

With all this said, I can understand why most active and reputable 
members of the internationalInternet community did not respond: the 
whole matter was from the beginning so much below every cultural level 
of communication that you can anticipate in advance that any, even the 
most well-intentioned, intervention would receive a false interpretation 
as an attack on a particular person.

I honestly wonder which executive committee members and why were not 
able to lead by example and withstand open and honest dialogue when it 
cameto the values and the future of SEEDIG, and why they were not able 
to discuss and overcome the differences? Why some executive committee 
members have been afraid of open and honest dialogue and have resorted 
to such abhorrentdefamation?

With the resignation of the two prominent executive committee members, 
SEEDIG can not be any longer considered as a broad church Internet 
community but rather as an exclusive club for particular purposes. As 
such, I cannot give legitimacy to the existing executive committee 
members and the SEEDIG as a whole with my membership. Therefore, I 
cancel my membership in the SEEDIG community and also ask to be removed 
from the mailing list.

I wish you all a peaceful and happy holidays and a lot of health and 
success in the new year,

Peter Sterle


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