Jacqueline McNally wrote:
At its 11 Jan 2006 meeting, the Community Council (CC) considered a
number of issues raised by Ian Lynch and Adam Moore regarding Ryan
Singer's demotion from MarCon. The CC resolved that the Marketing
Project (MP) leads should lead a discussion on this list and attempt to
resolve the issue within the project.
I would now like to open this discussion as requested. [....]
Thank you for opening the discussion. As the next step, would you
please respond to the points made by Ryan in a note forwarded to
the list on 17 January by Laurent Godard:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=22154
I have included the relevant portion of Laurent's note below.
Regards, Jean
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:06:42 +0100
From: Laurent Godard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Marketing] Community Council statements
[snip]
Ryan's statements
Laurent,
I am providing you with the email Jacqueline sent with my own
views inline.
On 12/19/05, Jacqueline McNally < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Ryan
>
> I am sending this message to you privately to request that you
> step-down from the MarCon role.
This was the first time someone from OOo expressed
dissatisfaction from me. No warnings, no requests for further action.
> The Project Leads are responsible for the recruitment of and
> liaison with MarCons. I was hesitant about awarding the role to
> you initially, as I was advised otherwise, but I decided to
> give you a go. I have copied below the currently minimal
> requirements as to "What do MarCons do?". The most important
> being communication, and I find that you have not communicated
> or liaised with John and me as best you could.
A legitimate complaint. I wish I had known she felt this way
while I was still marcon, I would have tried to remedy it.
> There are several reasons that it would be of benefit to
> OpenOffice.org that you are removed from the MarCon role. The
> most recent being an apparent conflict of interest as a MarCon
> and being a contact person for the OpenDocument Fellowship.
I am simply offended by her saying this to me in a letter where
she is taking official action. It is very common in Open Source
communities for people to be involved in multiple projects. I do
not believe that a role in another community in any way gets in
the way of my other functions. OOo and ODF goals align easily,
but if I thought they diverged, I would have expressed my concern
and asked for help. This is a serious accusation, and there
should have been a discussion with me first before making such a
statement. It would be like me saying that Louis should not be
community manager because there will be times when the community
and Collabnet disagree. In cases like this in a volunteer
organization, benefit of the doubt should be the rule.
> Specific examples of not communicating are: not following
> through and reporting back on your contact with Mozilla, not
> responding to mail with regard to DLS earlier this year, and
> responding in a very rude manner to one of our supporters and
> contributors to the 100 Club.
I did follow through and report back about Mozilla to the best of
my ability. As I am sure the council is aware, this is not the
first non-starter with the mozilla community, Louis has had
things like this disappear before too. With regard to mail about
DLS, I am unaware of a message I didn't reply to, but if
reminded, I can research that allegation. I also never intended
to be rude to anyone, and don't know who that comment is
referring too. If I did offend someone, I apologize, it was not
my intention.
> Also, I have not seen any activity or received feedback with
> regard to distribution of press releases in the USA - West
> Coast region.
When I first started as Marcon, Louis and I had a discussion
about press releases, and basically it boiled down to most US
institutions were already picking up press releases on the press
list or from the website. Had I been told there was
dissatisfaction, I would have taken guidance as to improve
distribution.
> I wish to advise that removal of the MarCon role is effective
> immediately. Your name will be removed from the MarCon page,
> and your email address removed from the MarCon lists during the
> next update of the web page and mailing lists.
This is why I resigned from the community. There is a complete
lack of process and volunteers are handled roughly.
Ryan
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