[FRIAM] [Swarm-directors] today's meeting, and call for vote on proposal
Gary Schiltz
gary at naturesvisualarts.com
Mon Jun 8 13:45:20 EDT 2020
I'm not part of Swarm, but hope you guys decide not to disband.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 12:41 PM glen ep ropella <gepr at tempusdictum.com>
wrote:
> That's convincing, Jim. I also vote "no".
>
> I'd like to know what the mission is, even if it's only to fold and
> disperse the funds.
>
> On 6/8/20 10:21 AM, James J Anderson wrote:
> > I agree with Steve that bringing attention to SDG is not a very useful
> result. Even if there is a way for Netlogo to acknowledge a $10k donation,
> a link to the existing Swarm website is not going to impress. In
> particular, if we do decide to be absorbed into an active organization,
> what is the value of shining attention to SDG if it then disappears?
> >
> > As we go forward to extinction or invigoration might we first consider
> our assets and how they might be leveraged to some purpose. The only
> tangible asset is the $40K in the bank. Intangible assets are a shared
> history and disjoint but overlapping activities in ABM. Splitting up the
> funds is the easy part, Making more of SDG requires a vision, agreement and
> individual commitments of time. But I don't see that we can do all this
> before the end of the voting period. We have created a false deadline for
> ourselves.
> >
> > I vote no for this round.
> >
> > I do hope we can revisit Steve's proposal after we have some better
> resolution of the future of SDG.
>
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> glen ep ropella 971-599-3737
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