[rpd] [Community-Discuss] Larus foundation fellowship

[Ubah Anthony Ikechukwu]

@Badru

I think Owen has shared his own point of views. You can share your own
opinion as well.

Apparently individual confrontation has slowly become a culture in this
community, rather than communication.
It this the way forward?

Anthony

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, 15:08 Badru Ntege, <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com> wrote:


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> Owen wrote   “It was not designed to “coach” people to come to any

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> Should one assume you are speaking from a point of authority on behalf of

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> Regards

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> The document provides only information that is a direct quote from the rpd

> list and the actual policy text. It is intended as a neutral summary to

> help people come up to speed on the proposal history and provided both pro

> and con information for each proposal.

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> On Jul 2, 2019, at 06:38, Omo Oaiya <Omo.Oaiya at wacren.net> wrote:

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> On 2 Jul 2019, at 14:21, Ubah Anthony Ikechukwu <ubah.tonyiyke at gmail.com>

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> A school of thought will say that Foundation through this document(s)

> educates their fellows and brings them up to speed on topics on the front

> burner by giving them a clearer picture on what to expect from the policy

> discussions, in preparation for the discussion session at the summit. While

> another school of thought can view the same document otherwise. It all

> boils down to perspective.

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> I believe the point is that newcomers need to arrive at their own views

> and perspectives by reviewing the proposals and related background docs,

> rather than been coached to parrot statements in an obvious agenda to swell

> numbers of supporting voices at meetings.   This is evident in the posts to

> the lists by some who make conflicting statements and sometimes they are

> just clearly out of sync.

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> Granted that some of these newcomers may still hold similar conclusions

> without coaching but my view is that this sort of “education” is gaming the

> PDP ….wherever it might come from.  That Larus also has a checkered history

> in AFRINIC just makes it more suspect.

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