[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-ES' Executive President - RESIGNATION. PUBLIC STATEMENT

[Andreu Vea']

I'm a good friend of my friends,
      I'm a Catalan,
            I'm an engineer and
                  I'm a Citizen with my own views

  (in this order).

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

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.

At the light of :

the public statement made by my friend Frederic Donck, (EU bureau director)
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)

due to the statement made, signed and urgently distributed by them and made
public on this list (not even read by the Catalans)
due that I have been fighting for years to bring bridges among chapters and
not to politize our relations
due that this is not my way of work (go sending public statements, without
talking each other in advance)
due that I personally find myself overcome by this situation. Where nobody
will gain anything at all.
due that I haven't been contacted by any ISOC-HQ official since last night


I do publicly present my RESIGNATION in my post as ISOC-es Executive
President
where I have led our beloved association over the last 15 years at the
board, and almost 8 as President.

According to our bylaws the VP will guide our association until the next
election process.

It has always been a pleasure and an honor to serve ISOC.

It has been (and will be) a source of meeting incredible people and to
achieve amazing goals.
It has been an incredible experience to build a Chapter that serves all
those territories where "there wasn't a chapter" in Spain

But I don't want that different political views, which (I personally
believe) should be expressed out of our scope
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.

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...

I won't admit this to happen at all !

As I told you the values of friendship, being a Catalan and an
internet-engineer, are much higher than any political views,
so despite my true sorrow I do RESIGN in my post as Executive President.
Hoping that this will ease the situation created.

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.

Keep up the good work !

        &reu

-- 
*Andreu Veà*, Ph.D.
National award to the Internet Personal Trajectory 2017
[VIDEO 10']  "25 years caring about the Internet
<http://ComoCreamosInternet.com/senado>" (Spanish Senate English Captioned)



[image: Imágenes integradas 1][image: Imágenes integradas 2]

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our meetings have had to solve the fact that we have 8 different sites in 8
different cities, but we made it for years !
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