Ah, a good old-fashioned "Stefane Ducasse is pissed" post. Hadn't had
one in a while. You really need to *read* the Wikipedia article on
conflict of interest before sending one of your hate mails. Conflicts of
interest happen everywhere, to me, to you, to many people. The important
part is to recognize them and to act accordingly. Here is the second
paragraph from Wikipedia:
"A conflict of interest can only exist if a person or testimony is
entrusted with some impartiality; a modicum of trust is necessary to
create it. The presence of a conflict of interest is independent from
the execution of impropriety. Therefore, a conflict of interest can be
discovered and voluntarily defused before any corruption occurs."
It should be obvious that a person who is both organizer of a contest as
well as participant is in a potential conflict of interest situation. If
you recognize the conflict you can deal with it. It can be as simple as
being explicit that you expect others to spread the invitation, for
example by including "please redistribute this announcement as widely as
possible in the Smalltalk community".
Having said all that my original point still stands, namely that your
invitation of the Pharo community specifically to vote is a clear
expression of an unrecognized and unmitigated conflict of interest. You
need to learn to recognize such situations and to act less emotionally.
Conflicts of interests happen to all of us, they can be dealt with
calmly and reasonably. And I expect the president of ESUG to be able to
act in such a way.
Cheers,
- Andreas
On 9/7/2010 12:51 AM, stephane ducasse wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> for some more or less conceivable reason, this hasn't made it to the
>>>> Squeak list yet.
>>>
>>> like what?
>>> I'm curious to learn.
>>
>> Like "conflict of interest"? (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest)
>>
>> "A conflict of interest (COI) occurs when an individual or organization is involved in multiple interests, one of which could possibly corrupt the motivation for an act in the other."
>>
>> Given that you're both the author of half of the books as well as president of ESUG (the organizer) it's pretty clear that you're stuck in a conflict of interest situation. Inviting the Pharo community to participate and not others only shows how deep the conflict of interest goes - the president of ESUG shouldn't favor individual communities, should he?
>
> Thanks andreas for this welcome mail.
> of course that esug does not something is not the wish of everybody.
> And people will vote not us. And this is not my fault if I spent my nights trying to get better a smalltalk world.
> Everybody can write books: a book is a word + a word + a word a lot of time, even you can do it.
> Now yesterday I had a difficult day
> - five visitors (one chilean, one argentinian, noury, luc, mariano and a team of 9 people to synchronize).
> You see I even forgot to send the mail to the seaside mailing-list.
>
> Thanks again for such encouragement.
>
> Stef (talking small).
>
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