<html><body> <blockquote>----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Tim Ansell" <mithro@mithis.com></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div>"linux-aus" <linux-aus@linux.org.au><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:11:15 +1100<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>[Linux-aus] Announcing my running for LA President<br /><br /><br /><p>[snip]</p>
<div><div><font color="#ff0000">I urge that if you disagree with these changes please run against me.</font></div></div></blockquote><font color="#ff0000">Or what?</font><div><font color="#ff0000"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000">Maybe I'm being unfairly suspicious of your motives, here, Tim, but if someone runs and wins, and they don't think your agenda is a high priority for them, then what? Will you hassle them here, on the Linux Australia email list? Will you phone them up? Will you criticise them in public?</font><blockquote>
</blockquote></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000">If you run and you are accepted as LA President, and we disagree with your proposed changes on list, will you ignore us? Will you claim that you had some kind of "mandate" to enact those changes because you were elected? Will you criticise us as being lazy whiners who couldn't be bothered to run for president?</font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000">Because none of these reactions, in my opinion, is a good thing at all.</font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000">Being the</font><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"> </span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">President of</span><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"> Linux Australia, in my opinion, is about trying to get a community consensus, and trying to do the right thing by the community of FOSS users and writers in Australia. Which is why it's such a hard thing to do, and why - with a very vocal group of people making a lot of trouble (in my opinion) on this list about various proposals and changes - very few people are currently willing to step up and do it. It is not a position, in my opinion, which allows its holder to do whatever e wants, pre-declared agenda or no.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><br /></span></div><div><font color="#ff0000">If you're serious about being President of Linux Australia, then I believe you have to be prepared to work with the _all_ community, not just the part of it that agrees with you.</font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000">Hope this helps,</font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000">Paul</font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><br /></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000">P.S. I haven't read your proposals. They could be the most benign and agreeable proposals ever. The above would still apply.</font></div></body></html>