Sending email about this is great, because it makes the community part of the decisions. But it doesn't eliminate the conflict of interest inside the board. Note that CoI is not a problem, it is a fact of life, but it must be handled properly.
exactly
When you are a member of an academic program committee, you are asked to leave when your paper is being discussed. We are asking for something similar in the context of the ESUG board; again, it is standard practice and I don't see why there should be any opposition to this.
As the number two of my research center, I deal with it daily for hiring people for their life, hiring phd students, engineers… And this is always the same. Shut up when concerns. Why people think that we do not apply that in ESUG board? Because of my personality? May be this is a compliment :)….
If I were a member of the ESUG board, I certainly would do the same on any decision that mentioned GNU Smalltalk.
Not only if one of your student send a request for summer talk, paper sponsoring or anything else. Even not related to GNU. ;)
Now I see so much frustration in some mails that I laugh a lot. Personally when I wake up the morning I feel good and I know that I'm doing a good job for my community. Now may be I should do something else.
I believe that you are; for both Pharo and ESUG. And I believe everybody knows the effort that you put into promotion of Smalltalk.
Thanks
But you shouldn't take things too personally: your effort requires you to be _more_ careful about not pissing people off, not less. :)
I do not know why we would be pissing people. Pissed people would be taking our actions are aggressive or wrong but this is their misinterpretations not our actions.
Paolo
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