[NA-Discuss] This whole resignation thing

[Alan Greenberg]

Beau, I think that you did misinterpret. And the question did not 
come from any bias. Wendy got off easier this time because I 
subjected her to it last year, and we have discussed several issues 
one-on-one, so I had less need with her.

I specifically made reference to "formal" ALAC activities, and 
perhaps even to teleconferences (which you understood based on the 
your reply). Staff had distributed a spreadsheet where your 
satisfaction of the ALAC performance rules was flagged as "Not 
Achieved" (a fate I narrowly missed over that same 6-month period by 
just one meeting). I have already gone on record a few times as 
saying we needed to revise those rules to track SUBSTANTIVE 
contributions and not mere attendance. In our current rules, if 
someone had missed *one* ALS vote, they would have failed in that 
category! And if they attend everything and never say or do anything 
they are labelled superb.

I did not say that the NARALO was calling for your resignation - I 
said I had seen one post on the mailing list saying that - nothing more.

And I led off the question saying that you had made substantive 
contributions in various areas (which not unreasonably were also 
aligned with your real-life work activities).

The question was quite straight. You did not manage to make a fair 
percentage of the ALAC teleconferences in the last while, and I was 
asking why a substantially larger number of events would not be a 
problem in the future. Although I will no doubt get into trouble for 
trying to paraphrase you, my take on your answer was that you missed 
some meetings because they were often a waste of time. And I agreed. 
I am a bit troubled that you have not been more active in trying to 
fix that problem instead of walking away from it, but that is just my 
personal feeling.

I normally treat volunteers very respectfully and with sensitivity. 
In this case, you are putting your name up for an important position 
within the ALAC world, and I do not think it appropriate to side-step 
issues because they are awkward to bring up.

Alan



At 05/09/2008 02:59 PM, Brendler, Beau wrote:
>Dear NA:
>
>This morning in the board liaison candidacy discussion, Alan 
>Greenberg asked me a question that went something like, "considering 
>the NA region is calling for your resignation because you don't have 
>time for your ALAC duties as they currently stand, why should we 
>vote for you for board liaison?"
>
>Putting aside the board liaison candidacy thing for a moment, I need 
>to get clear on something.
>
>If I misinterpreted the question (I don't think I did), feel free to 
>ignore this note. If Alan's question comes from some sort of bias 
>for Wendy's candidacy versus mine, well hey, that's OK, I'm a big 
>boy and I don't really see that as a problem. The ALAC will vote for 
>whom it votes.
>
>But if the NA-RALO is indeed asking for my resignation, I would have 
>appreciated the opportunity to address it in another forum 
>beforehand, or would have appreciated hearing it directly from the 
>elected chair of the NA-RALO rather than from a nomcom appointee. 
>Or, for that matter, I would have appreciated hearing about it from 
>the chair of the ALAC. If it's indeed the case, you'll have my 
>resignation in 24 hours -- (914) 378-2018 until 5:30 EST. It would 
>be great to know before the weekend starts, so I can devote time I 
>would have spent on ICANN matters to other things.
>
>Some final advice: If you're looking to attract good volunteers to 
>work in this community, rethink your processes.
>
>Regards,
>
>Beau Brendler
>
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