On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Satabdi Das <[email protected]> wrote: > I think whosoever becomes an admin of a group should be aligned with the > ethos and thoughts of a group. But the earlier discussions showed that you > and others (disclaimer: including me) have irreconcilable differences in > ideas and attitudes. By this, I do not mean that everyone in this group has > to agree on every single point but a debate should give rise to something > constructive and a member, specially so for an admin, should appreciate > others' point of views. I would like an admin in this group as a catalyst > not an imposer of opinions. >
I do not see a real conflict, but a difference on how things should be done. Anyway admins are supposed to operate through some kind of consensus mechanism. They are not leaders. I am definitely interested in overseeing the development of consensus mechanisms in the group. > I would also like to mention here that you misused your admin power in the > website to write something in the poster competition event page which shows > this group in bad light. You might have thought what you wrote is correct > but many others in this group do not think so. And we need to avoid > precisely this sort of things. > I did not misuse any power. The text was posted on mailing list first. There hardly any responses. So it was added to website. Debates happened a few days later. > Your "relentless arguing" on mailing list guidelines or the initial text of > poster competition are all counter-productive to that aim. Had I been a > newcomer to this group and totally new to FOSS, I would have surely fled > away and instead join a group which does something constructive to kindle my > interest in FOSS. I was clearly trying to set relatively radical directions for the group. Now that I am planning a new group, I can operate on the reduced set of common principles. Which means the conflicts would be minor ones. > Keeping in mind this group's interest, I am giving you time till one week to > step down from the admin post of this group. I do not see this making sense in the light of the above. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS http://www.logicamani.in _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list [email protected] Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org
