[Fwd: An Appeal for Help and a Fair Hearing]

rbil rbil at shaw.ca
Mon Nov 6 22:08:33 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-11 at 16:52 -0400, Cody Somerville wrote:
> Wow. That is some pretty disturbing stuff... I hope you can get it
> resolved. I would add yourself to the agenda for the next community
> council meeting and make your appeal there. The whole situation really
> wasn't handled very well - maybe we need to get some firm policy in
> place for IRC moderation to keep OPs accountable to their actions? 
> 
Cody, 

Thank you for this. At the very least there needs to be some way for an
aggrieved party to have a way to appeal decisions like this. The OPs
have just chosen to ban and ignore, leaving me no option but to try and
bring their behaviour to the wider community.

Cheers,
Rene

> 
> On 11/6/06, rbil <rbil at shaw.ca> wrote:
>         The attached email was supposed to go out to the Canadian
>         Ubuntu Users
>         mailing list, but I guess I screwed up. Here it is.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Rene
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>         From: rbil < rbil at shaw.ca>
>         To: info at canonical.com
>         Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:23:52 -0800
>         Subject: An Appeal for Help and a Fair Hearing
>         To Whom It May Concern: 
>         
>         I don't know where else to turn, so I'm contacting the
>         corporate sponsor
>         of Ubuntu that by all indications is a principled and
>         progressive
>         company. Attempts to get a fair hearing and any response back
>         from the 
>         IRC ops responsible has just been ignored. I've outlined what
>         has
>         transpired on a web page, that you can find at:
>         
>         http://w-3productions.com/ubuntucommunity.html
>         
>         I apologize for the length of the document, but can think of
>         no other
>         way to fully cover the events that took place. I trust after
>         having read
>         The Official ubuntu Book, Canonical would be concerned about
>         the actions 
>         of individuals who play a public leadership role in the Ubuntu
>         Community.
>         
>         I have personally spent many many hours promoting Ubuntu and
>         the
>         philosophy behind the Ubuntu movement. It is for this reason
>         that I 
>         think exposing these events is so important. I hope that you
>         will
>         seriously look at what has taken place and act accordingly. I
>         look
>         forward to a response back from Canonical on this subject.
>         
>         Thank you very much for your attention. 
>         
>         In Solidarity,
>         Rene Bilodeau
>         
>         cc:
>         
>         dennis at kaarsemaker.net
>         mspruell at gmail.com
>         corey.burger at gmail.com
>         ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>         
>         
>         
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