Hi Sue-- Thank you so so much for that reply, it was really really appreciated.
> I also wanted to say -- you know in your post where you speculate about why > this is > happening now, is it because of the fundraising, has someone offered board > members jobs, > etc. (I know you were mostly non-serious about the jobs.) That is a totally > legitimate set of > questions. Well, I think you're being way too charitable with me-- I'm not sure even I consider those questions legitimate. Thus, I did try to inject a lot of silliness (e.g. Extraterrestrials and fundamentalist financiers) into those sorts of scenarios because I didn't want to convey any genuine-conspiracy-theory of ulterior motives-- I just kinda wanted to express a vague sense of exasperation and confusion and not-knowing-what-to-think-or-who-to-trust. Because, ya know, when you care about an movement and things get rough, your mind does go through all kinds of scenarios to try to make sense of it, and maybe sharing those crazy thoughts will help you recognize and intercept them when they occur in others. :) If my concerns seemed legitimate, then I probably owe you and anyone else involved a big apology for accidentally making it seem even remotely legitimate. A far better description would be "an illegitimate, unfounded concern that crossed my mind cause I couldn't make sense of what was going on." I passed it on because in the hope it might be a little helpful just to see where some of our thoughts are going. The downside in even expressing stuff like that is it sort of involves distrusting a group of total strangers, most of whose names I don't even know without looking them up, all because they agreed to do work for my all-time favorite non-profit. Raw deal for ya'll. It doesn't get said enough, but thank you to all who have done such a wonderful job running things all these years. I never could have done your jobs one-tenth as well as you all have. In particular, last year's fundraising work was just phenomenal, and I really do apologize for even suggesting, in passing, and in theory, that that work might somehow really be tied to anything negative. I had no basis for such a statement, I didn't sincerely believe it then, I still don't. Thanks again for reply :) Alec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l