[Nottingham] AGM - Candidates and How to Vote (email vote deadline 5pm)

[Graeme Fowler]

On Thu 21 Jul 2005 14:18:27 BST , Duncan John Fyfe <djf at star.le.ac.uk> wrote:
> It saddens me to see someone who having failed to take the opportunity
> to contribute to this at all levels from writing the constitution to how
> the election would be run is going to winge about the considerable work
> done by others because they didn't quite get it right.
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I'm not 100% sure there was any real need for that, Duncan. Whether or 
not any member of the list has made a "significant contribution" or not 
to any particular event, meeting or otherwise, is irrelevant.

As has been acknowledged elsewhere, mistakes have been made and people 
will want to assert their rights as subscribers to the mailing list in 
order to make their displeasure known. As long as that displeasure 
isn't made in a personal manner with respects to other people's 
contributions or commitments then I think we should collectively accept 
their comments and move on in a way which learns from the events.

I have to admit that I am slightly disappointed by what's happened over 
the last 48 or so hours, as it has shown (in my opinion) what has 
previously been a fairly happy LUG not to be the case. If you're now 
beginning to make a distinction between the mailing list and those who 
have time and live close enough to physically attend events, then this 
is a sad afternoon indeed.

I always thought the LUG was more than just the people who attend 
events, but maybe I'm wrong.

Graeme