Hi Charlene and everyone else you have cc'd with your response to Lourie.
Lourie has asked you for a response to some other outstanding and unaddressed issues, and you have replied with a self-damning transcript including the line "Great game you guys are playing hope you having fun laughing your heads off with the disrespect and everything else you scheming."
Perhaps Lourie didn't immediately get your SMS? I have no idea, perhaps he did maliciously scheme to lure you to a meeting and then leave you stranded in the building, but a key wiki principle is "assume good faith" and you assume bad faith in this case and repeatedly in other cases. This incident is simply a minor one in a repeating pattern.
Your attack against David when, in the absence of any feedback from the rest of us, including you, he acted on another key wiki principle, "be bold" was outrageous. Instead of simply disagreeing and asking him to undo the decision, you launched a personal attack, and I am only sorry I simply resigned in disgust instead of confronting you on it as well.
Your attacks against Kerryn were equally vitriolic.
You have repeatedly shown signs of paranoia and have accused each and every member of the board of, at best, scheming. Perhaps, if every single person is scheming to get you, the problem lies elsewhere?
Your destructive communication has led to a dysfunctional and demoralised atmosphere in the board, the resignation of two board members and I'm surprised the others continue to put up with your abuse. I think the only reason I avoided any attacks while I was involved was that I didn't do anything.
If you edited one of the Wikimedia projects in the same way as you communicate with your fellow board members you would have been banned long ago.
I am no longer a member of the board, but I request as a member of the South African Wikimedia community who you represent that you step down and allow your position to be filled by a board member who understands what good faith is, and is willing to work constructively with their colleagues and the local community.
Your continued involvement on the board is doing great harm to the development of the Wikimedia projects in South Africa.
I am sorry to do this publicly and perpetuate the saga, as I prefer to deal with issues like this in private, but your unchecked public attacks on everyone else deserve a public response.
Regards, Ian Gilfillan
On 29/07/2012 17:54, Charlene Foster wrote:
Charlene; July 20th / 17h16 - Great game you guys are playing hope you having fun laughing your heads off with the disrespect and everything else you scheming.