Dear FSFE Team and Free Software community,
I hearby resign from my position as Italian Chancellor and Fellowship Coordinator for the FSFE.
I have contributed to the growth of the organization since 2001, including the creation of projects such as the Fellowship and GNUvox.info, the fight to the swpat directive, the opposition to OOXML and many other successful activities.
So it is with a heavy heart that I must recognize the organization has taken a direction that I can no longer support, one which I feel will eventually make it irrelevant in the community, if not defunct.
In June 2007 I devised with other team members a constructive proposal to re-organize the foundation as a starting point for reforms. It fell on deaf ears. It has since become clear that all efforts would be made to ensure that my resignation was necessary.
I will continue to promote Free Software within other organizations and in other ways.
I wish to thank all the people who generously contributed time and expertise to the Italian chapter and the Fellowship.
Regards, Stefano Maffulli
From now on, please contact me using my personal email addresses: stef maffulli net or stef zoomata com My personal blog is at http://maffulli.net
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:06:28PM +0200, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
Dear FSFE Team and Free Software community,
I hearby resign from my position as Italian Chancellor and Fellowship Coordinator for the FSFE.
That's sad to read.
So it is with a heavy heart that I must recognize the organization has taken a direction that I can no longer support, one which I feel will eventually make it irrelevant in the community, if not defunct.
What exactly is it that you can no longer support FSFE? I just joined the Fellowship you were coordinating and am curious what made you resign.
In June 2007 I devised with other team members a constructive proposal to re-organize the foundation as a starting point for reforms. It fell on deaf ears. It has since become clear that all efforts would be made to ensure that my resignation was necessary.
Is there any resource to read the discussions? I couldn't find anything in the mailman-archive.
I will continue to promote Free Software within other organizations and in other ways.
I wish you all the best.
Greetings,
Guido
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:04, guido@gnu.org said:
In June 2007 I devised with other team members a constructive proposal to re-organize the foundation as a starting point for reforms. It fell on deaf ears. It has since become clear that all efforts would be made to ensure that my resignation was necessary.
Is there any resource to read the discussions? I couldn't find anything in the mailman-archive.
No. As of now these are internal discussions within the team members.
I supported this proposal and we discussed it during the last general assembly in July. The outcome was that the executive board was assigned the task to work on that proposal and start a discussion process by email. By the words of the official protocol:
The GA decides that it is a priority to increase the participation of the community in the activities and governance of the organization.
The GA foresees that changes to the constitution might be required for this.
No secret vote was requested.
After discussion the item is unanimously approved [9 yes, 0 no, 0 abts].
The executive board did this, presented a new draft on August 28 and asked us for more input. Sadly, Stefano (who is full time employed by the FSFE) did not found the time to reply to that request. Actually, his resignment mail from yesterday was the first act of communication at the European level for several weeks now.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 00:04 +0200, Guido Arnold wrote:
What exactly is it that you can no longer support FSFE? I just joined the Fellowship you were coordinating and am curious what made you resign.
you should do what you feel is right. If you joined the Fellowship because you felt that FSFE brings value to the community, then you made the right choice. I hope that FSFE will keep bringing value to the community and that more people become Fellows.
Is there any resource to read the discussions? I couldn't find anything in the mailman-archive.
There was some public discussion around April 2007, discussions threads that include this message: http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2007-April/006962.html but the rest is private conversations that are not worth bringing up.
I stopped contributing to the internal debates as soon as I realized that the current executives are IMVHO not capable of implementing the changes that I believe are necessary. For me this adventure ends here: it was a pleasure until it lasted. Facts, I hope, will prove if I'm wrong.
Regards stef