<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I'm a good friend of my friends, </div><div> I'm a Catalan, </div><div> I'm an engineer and </div><div> I'm a Citizen with my own views </div><div><br></div><div> (in this order).</div><div><br></div><div>Since 1995 when we co-founded ISOC-CAT and later on in 2002 when I helped to "rejuvenate" the ISOC-ES (going from nothing to be one of the chapters of the world with most people involved (700+) plus a board of 14 dedicated an incredible individuals </div><div><br></div><div>I have volunteered day by day to start-up chapters, make them grow, stabilize boards and disseminate ISOC's mission and values around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>At the light of :</div><div><br></div><div>the public statement made by my friend Frederic Donck, (EU bureau director) </div><div>the urgent extraordinary meeting that my board had yesterday (hold on a local holiday and without any of the Catalan members on board: neither the President, the Secretary and a vocal, by different reasons)</div><div><br></div><div>due to the statement made, signed and urgently distributed by them and made public on this list (not even read by the Catalans)</div><div>due that I have been fighting for years to bring bridges among chapters and not to politize our relations</div><div>due that this is not my way of work (go sending public statements, without talking each other in advance)</div><div>due that I personally find myself overcome by this situation. Where nobody will gain anything at all.</div><div>due that I haven't been contacted by any ISOC-HQ official since last night</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I do publicly present my RESIGNATION in my post as ISOC-es Executive President</div><div>where I have led our beloved association over the last 15 years at the board, and almost 8 as President.</div><div><br></div><div>According to our bylaws the VP will guide our association until the next election process.</div><div><br></div><div>It has always been a pleasure and an honor to serve ISOC.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It has been (and will be) a source of meeting incredible people and to achieve amazing goals.</div><div>It has been an incredible experience to build a Chapter that serves all those territories where "there wasn't a chapter" in Spain</div><div><br></div><div>But I don't want that different political views, which (I personally believe) should be expressed out of our scope</div><div>break in two pieces our beatiful and loved association. I have never expressed these views as a citizen at any ISOC meeting, and I want to keep it like this until my last minute as President. </div><div><br></div><div>Otherways my words will be used "as political propaganda" at any side as they'll yours. Which in turn will eclipse my/our achievements as an internet engineer, and will collide with what I feel by my detained Catalan internet professionals and erode my friendship with my other ISOC colleagues...</div><div><br></div><div>I won't admit this to happen at all !</div><div><br></div><div>As I told you the values of friendship, being a Catalan and an internet-engineer, are much higher than any political views, </div><div>so despite my true sorrow I do RESIGN in my post as Executive President. Hoping that this will ease the situation created.</div><div><br></div><div>Urging my colleagues at the board to have an open meeting within this week, with Frederic Donck, Raul Echebarria, Magí Lluch (ISOC-CAT) and others involved to talk and stop acting with "official public statements" which are useless and are misinterpreted out of its context. </div><div><br clear="all"><div>Keep up the good work !</div><div><br></div><div> &reu</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;font-size:large">Andreu Veà</b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;font-size:large">, Ph.D.</span><br></div><div>National award to the Internet Personal Trajectory 2017 </div>[VIDEO 10'] "<a href="http://ComoCreamosInternet.com/senado" target="_blank">25 years caring about the Internet</a>" (Spanish Senate English Captioned)<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:ii_15ebeaf481bd5ab7" alt="Imágenes integradas 1" width="269" height="183" style="margin-right: 0px;"><img src="cid:ii_15ebeafbcecd8623" alt="Imágenes integradas 2" width="472" height="183"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="cid:ii_15ebeb22bf87b924" alt="Imágenes integradas 3" width="315" height="224" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div><div><font size="1">our meetings have had to solve the fact that we have 8 different sites in 8 different cities, but we made it for years !</font></div><div><font size="1"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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