[rpd] Serving the Community is not a choice when they call

[Caleb Olumuyiwa Ogundele]

You might wish to read another email posted by Komi in another mail thread
since it's difficult to catch up with all the emails flying around without
following a canned thread pattern.

Komi made some important point on the status of Sami and I think it
clarifies any grey area raising any controversy.

Regards
Caleb Ogundele

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018, 16:41 Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com wrote:

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> The Community asked you back because they value your contribution.  And
> I’m sure many still do.
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> Mediocrity rarely gets noticed or highly challenged and criticized.   You
> are way above that and you will get the criticism and challenges.
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> I would suggest that we look beyond any seemingly personal messages and
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> We work in a factual space and its not how loud the noise might be but how
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> You have an unenviable role where whatever decision you make you please
> some people while displeasing other people.
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> This happens in a community where sometimes community is only 20 people or
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> I think here the board needs to come in and pronounce itself on which
> direction to take to resolve this.
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> I do not think as members we should continue the debate as history tells
> us when we debate we have a tendency of going bellow the belt to make our
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> Co-Chair has done his role.
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> Lets repect his decision and use the other prescribed avenues to
> ultimately arrive at the *community* desired outcome.
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> *From: *Sami Salih <sami.salih at outlook.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 3:55 PM
> *To: *"rpd at afrinic.net" <rpd at afrinic.net>
> *Subject: *[rpd] Serving the Community is not a choice when they call
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> Hi community,
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> If you may recall, before Dakar meeting I decided to not continue as
> co-chair as my term comes to end on Dakar.
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> I sent an email to this list early before the nominations started to
> encourage people to stand for this position, however the candidate list was
> too short. And you all followed what happened in Dakar during the election
> of the PDWG Co-chair, and because I know very will it's a tough task to be
> managed by a single chair I offered to continue either for 6 months or for
> full term.
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> It's really very sad that some people declared that "they choose to not
> participate" to serve the community, please refer to this link (
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTApl4QHfY) @ [10:27:11] , but the worst
> thing is those people are trying very hard to negatively affect our
> organization. But I will remind them that the power of the community will
> never tolerate any attempt to sabotage the unity of the continent.
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> For me it's much better to serve the community as a community member given
> any volunteer position may restrict my replies.
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> On another note, I can't understand how people that failed to hold similar
> voluntary positions will use such huge effort to destroy the same
> organization they served before.
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> I remain at the service of the community on any place they feel I can
> positively contribute to the best of the community.
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> Best Regards,
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> *Dr. Sami H.O. Salih*
> Assistant Prof, School of Electronics Engineering, SUST
> Head of R&D, NTC, SUDAN
> President of SDv6TF
> T/F: (249)122045707/187171355
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