Re: [Envolution-devel] Envolution Official International Website Policy

[tinta <ti...@au...>]

> These policies were discussed and voted upon in the Organizational
> meeting on August 2, 2003 without objection.

Hi, I'm webmaster of the Polish Support Site for eNvolution.

I would ask you to remove my site from the list of the Official eNvolution 
Support. The reason of my decision are the last events in the leadership, 
which I do not accept, especially changing the Roadmap without deriving the 
community opinion and asking it for approve the changes. I think the only 
discourse of several people on IRC channel is not enough, especially that the 
news according to the Roadmap was published earlier. Before decide about it 
ir should be made any public opinion poll or any question addressed to the 
users or so one... I think the community cannot be ignored. This mistake was 
made by other project leaders and developers and it has not increased their 
and theirs projects popularity. Envolution Project includes a lot of people 
disppointed with the CMSs like PostNuke or PHPNuke and their developing ways, 
they have moved to eNvolution because only it has promissed the active 
contribution of community in the project develop. Changing the Roadmap with 
no community opinion you have clearly shown that you do not intend to respect 
it. 
Also inner contests happening last time on envolution-devel mailing list have 
not to do with the project developing, they are just the war which doesn't 
bring on anything new nor good. I think also the redirecting of provious 
sites' URLs to the new ones like "www.germany.envolution.com" is not a good 
idea, mostly because any envonet site webmaster wouldn't have any warranty 
the site would not be redirected to the other site if he makes something you 
don't like. Reading last posts on envolution-devel I see you don't respect 
the merits of people who have made a lot for the Project. 
I'm not going to stop my site but I want to support eNvolution for the Polish 
Community unofficilly and in my own way. I don't think I will lose anything 
doing this, because the help and support from you is comparable to the 
naught, you are too busy only with your inner accounts to serve any help to 
international supporters.  A month ago I made the same decision about the 
PHPNuke Support Site and I must say the site has just gained by it - a lot of 
users have not agreed with the FB's politics and disclaiming the Official 
Support I just earned popularity and more active user's contribution in the 
site development. 
I consider also that after TiMax leaving you should show you can maintain 
everything what has been done up to now, and not to make the revolution 
changing everything possible - eNvolution is has not yet the position strong 
enough to lose the popularity among regular users and Community Members. 
On the end I would like to tell that I'm not going to judge or attack anybody 
personally - that is only my privat opinion of the recent eNvolution 
situation, so please do not me attack too.
Best Regards and Good Luck