William - please either accept unconditionally or decline your nomination.
At the moment I have you down as accepting unconditionally - but now I am
asking you to confirm that on this list.
And please stop trying to hijack a process to your own ends. Those of the
SPF community who have been on IRC over the last day or two know very well
what I am doing, and I am grateful for their input. I just don't have the
time to get into a protracted discussion on the list 10 hours before voting
starts. Yes it'll be a webform with all the scripts and all the opportunity
for voters to double check their votes and all stuff. I am not going to sit
here
and write a lengthy post about the details when I should be writing the
scripts. You either trust me to do this reasonably well or you don't -
which is it?
Please understand - I have done this *many* times before, and you are not
going to say anything about the process that I'm not already aware of so
relax - I'll take my flaming if I'm wrong.
Right now it's more important that the people show their wishes by voting.
Oh - and btw - you haven't seen my acceptance - have you? No - because I am
not standing, and never had any intention of doing so, because I *know*
there is a conflict between standing and acting as returning officer.
Slainte,
JohnP.
johnp(_at_)idimo(_dot_)com
ICQ 313355492
And here's the reply I sent William -
----- Original Message -----
From: "jpinkerton" <johnp(_at_)idimo(_dot_)com>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [spf-discuss] Re: List of nominations for people to sit on the
"SPF Leadership Council"
----- Original Message -----
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net>
1. Agreeing to surve "conditionally" on the council does not make sense
as I always have option to withdraw from it if my agenda on
formalities
of organization is not of interest to the rest of the council. What
this means is that I now agree to serve unconditionally but that if
I'm elected and I'm unable to convince others there of the necessary
of the adaption of charter and rules of order for SPF Organization,
I'll probaby resign (but I'll give it a shot for at least two months
and only then consider resiging of things dont work out).
*Very* many thanks William -
That is *excellent* news for spf, and will help the new council press
forward constructively.
Would you please post a brief "I accept" to spf-discuss for the benefit of
others?
Slainte,
JohnP.
johnp(_at_)idimo(_dot_)com
ICQ 313355492