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

[Aleksandar Icokaev]

Dear all, 

I stand behind everything that Zdravko said in his email below and I support his proposal with small additions, strictly in personal capacity : 

In order to prevent escalation of the conflict in the exe comm to spread among the community members, I propose not Dusan or any other ( actual or ex exe com member) , but the "sponsors , supporters , observers..." ,   to help SEEDIG in drafting the statute for the legal entity... and than,  under the new "rule book" ,  to announce and hold general elections for the new exe com or whatever executive body will be stipulated in the statute of SEEDIG as  legal entity ! Also here I would like to call upon and  support  Vlada's thoughts in his email of few days ago. 

After resigning , Sorina and Lianna, or any other ex exe com member  would continue to contribute  ( on voluntary basis ) as a  liaison officers between the community and "sponsors , supporters , observers..."  and with in the community.  

This is not a recipe ...   I respect everyone's  work vested in SEEDIG in the past years ( including all past members of the exe com )  and  I really do hope that SEEDIG core values shall prevail,  eventually ! 

Let's start talking"  after the holidays... 


I wish you happy and festive holidays and all the best in the New 2020 !!!


Best,  

Aleksandar Icokaev




> On Dec 26, 2019, at 11:03, Zdravko Jukić <Zdravko.Jukic at hakom.hr> wrote:
> 
> Dear SEEDIG friends,
>  
> let us be honest with each other, our initiative is in crisis. I will try to simplify the assessment of the situation. What I know is that SEEDIG in Ljubljana was a great success and that one of the key people responsible for that success was Dušan C. What I also know and it would be very difficult to convince me the opposite is the fact that Sorina works 24/7 for the initiative. For some reason there was a conflict in the Exec Committee that could not be resolved internally so it spilled out to the community and unfortunately beyond. 
>  
> What now? 
>  
> I still think that SEEDIG is a valuable place to facilitate regional cooperation. Because of all the good heritage collected over the period of more than five years now, we should all come together and try to resolve the conflict.
>  
> How to do that? I would suggest to do it with as many community members as possible.
>  
> As inclusiveness is one of the key values of SEEDIG, we need to get everyone back in the discussion and I would propose to ask Dušan to propose concrete amendments to the framework according to which we should function as a community. After that, we would have a broad consultation within the community on those proposals. This should last not more than one month, and the final proposed changes would need to be supported by more than (certain percentage, tbd in the process) of all the members of the community.
>  
> In order to facilitate this process I would also propose that the current remaining members of the Exec Committee resign until the new elections take place. The new elections would then be organised according to the new framework as agreed by the community.
>  
> I wish you all a happy New Year and hope that we all, as a community, come stronger out of the current situation.
>  
> Best regards,
> Zdravko
>  
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> Zdravko Jukić
> Deputy Executive Director
> tel: +385 1 7007 375
> mobile: +385 91 722 3103
> email: zdravko.jukic at hakom.hr <mailto:zdravko.jukic at hakom.hr>
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> PRAVNE NAPOMENE: Ova elektronička pošta (i sve priložene datoteke) je povjerljiva i namijenjena je osobi ili osobama na koje je naslovljena. Ukoliko ste primili ovu poruku greškom, molimo Vas, obavijestite pošiljatelja, a poruku i sve njene privitke odmah, bez čitanja, trajno uklonite s računala. Bilo kakvo prenošenje, kopiranje ili distribucija informacija sadržanih u poruci trećim osobama je zabranjeno i može biti zakonski kažnjivo. Pošiljatelj ne prihvaća nikakvu odgovornost za bilo kakvu štetu ili gubitak podataka do kojeg može doći korištenjem ove elektroničke pošte. Sadržaj, stavovi i mišljenja izneseni u poruci su autorovi i ne predstavljaju nužno stavove HAKOM-a.
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> From: seedig [mailto:seedig-bounces at lists.rnids.rs] On Behalf Of Peter Sterle
> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:15 AM
> To: seedig at rnids.rs
> Subject: Re: [seedig] Launching a new election process: Call for volunteers for the Election Committee
>  
> 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 under unjust and baseless attack. But the petition was so beyond 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 executive committee, 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 respond to incentives 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 international Internet 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 came to 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 abhorrent defamation?
> 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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