elections

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

>From my starting at arabeyes three years ago till today, and the project
was a big playground for ppl who were jaleous about it and about its
existence. We all know them, and we all know how HARD the fights about
the power in Arabeyes were and still are, take fedora as an example or
take some suspicious papers as another example.
And I think with these new elections the Arabeyes core members show
blantly that they lost the fight. For me these elections don't show "our
willingness to renew the blood of the project" but the reality that the
core-members don't have the commitment (the energy ? the money? the
time?) to fight for what they installed some years ago.
The project can be compared to some app with a front-end and a back-end.
The core members were the back-end ensuring that the whole project is
still healthy and alive whereas we the front-end were working hard to
deliver a compelling product. I for myself don't want to think about
legal and organizational stuff inside Arabeyes, I simply want to deliver
my pos and make the gnu tools kick ass.

Instead of us concentrating on the REAL problems awaiting us, SO MANY
problems which are not solved, we simply begin to start playing with the
stability of the project in introducing new ppl to fields they should
not be interested in. Not because they are not good but because of our
problems:
Too few ppl, no real mass translations! SO FEW MAN even after all these
years!
Too few skilled ppl to roll out quality work and define standards.
Too few standardized papers to ease cooperation with other groups.
No real cooperation with other groups.
No REAL answers to attacks from the outside and the inside.
etc... etc...
And instead of us coming together, working together and being for eg.
present and discuss our problems in the IRC etc... NO we are only hungry
for power, well you not me...

Instead of thinking about these problems we are hurrying for elections!
What will bring us these elections? Come on, only cz some ppl said there
is no democracy in Arabeyes we'll hurry up in giving ppl the opportunity
to be the new "sheikh alqabila" at Arabeyes? ... How hungry are we for
power? would I ask... Arabeyes at the end a playground for power-hungry
ppl? No more workplace and commitment?

Sure every "election" has it's good sides, but we're not electing here
ppl who were engaged for at least some months in the arabeyes process,
only three did that and maybe two really knew the meat. it's like
electing a president who never practiced politics. And in this regard I
see these elections as not beneficial to us, the core members themselves
didn't ask us when they decided to make these elections and for myself I
see this as a BIG mistake, no discussion were held, so where is the REAL
democracy in this process??? no qualified person, no real discussion, no
real argument.... Well for me this elections are not democratic! A
reaction to some internal mood at the core group?

What I am afraid of, and what is also clear for me, is that groups and
ppl who don't know what Arabeyes is simply can change the track of the
project, that only cz ppl are busy or bored they step down from their
responsabilities and that at the end like the Arabic regimes we'll
become a playground for untrained ppl living their power illusions and
enjoy being a "leader"....

Salam