SCN: RE: RE: SCNA kaput -- irrevocably? - from Ken Gillgren

[sc at sdf.lonestar.org]

Joel,

No, we don't have a community network at all. It's still the
same situation as in 2007 when half a dozen of us met with you
in a coffee shop in Fremont and expressed our hopes that SCN
could once again become a volunteer-friendly group where the
membership's ideas and votes determined how and where SCNA
directed its energies in the future.

Instead we still see a closed fiefdom with membership-unfriendly
policies, disguised as a community network. Where are the
hundreds of civically engaged people? Where are SCN's own
principles? There's someone (Ti) focused on seeking corporate
donations for a worthwhile program to donate old PCs. There's an
accounting guy (Miller) who wants to contribute his bit to a
good civic cause. And whoever the fourth board member is, it's
someone whose voice is effectively silent on issues of public
concern, or concern to volunteers, because I certainly haven't
heard it.

And that doesn't add up to a community network, not one in the
mold of the original SCN. It's been yours to play with as your
own little hobby-sized kingdom, and you've done exactly what you
wanted to do with it for more than four years now. And that has
amounted to a very small hill of very unnattractive beans.

It's time for you to seriously think about taking up another
hobby.

Rod Clark


On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Douglas Schuler wrote:

> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 08:18:34 -0700
> From: Douglas Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org>
> To: jw4 at scn.org
> Subject: Re: SCN: RE: RE: SCNA kaput -- irrevocably? - from Ken Gillgren
> 
>
> We have a community network for this....
>
> -- Doug
>
> On Jul 2, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Joel Ware, IV wrote:
>
>> I can help with this part --
>> 
>> We have a group set up on Yahoo! for SCNA revitalization --
>> I will invite all on this list.
>> 
>> Regards,
>>         -Joel.
>> 
>> Joel Ware, IV
>> 
>> Email: joelware at yahoo.com
>> Phone: (206) 250-5950 (mobile)
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