On Sep 5, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
I can't answer these questions, but it seems that the AlbertaIX chair, Bernard Parkinson (Platinum Communications) resigned yesterday, and the AlbertaIX co-chair, Charles Taylor (City of Calgary) followed him by resigning too.
I guess that leaves Bill Sandiford (CIRA) and Jean-Francois Amiot (Cybera) running the show??
That is a good question. I am also a director on the AlbertaIX board, and don't have a clue what is going on. Most directors are being kept in the dark, while others take unapproved action. I should probably jump ship as well. The last six months in AlbertaIX saw no discussions (or approval) for any action plan. Without votes, nothing can be built. Now a new chair has to be selected first. Who will it be? The entire organization also lacks documents. The new game plan is to follow YYCIX because of Hurricane Electric's arrival at the datacenter which was (originally) the least preffered. Or maybe the new plan is to simply serve Cybera's interests through the re-use of seed money? After all, Cybera also supplies the secretary. I don't have answers, though I've been asking questions since the beginning. Things first went crazy in December when YYCIX was formed and installed a switch within days. Yes, as a local go-to-guy who wants to see better net around here, I installed the equipment. The schism between AlbertaIX and YYCIX has been discussed before, so I need not explain it here. Recently, events again went crazy when Robin Windsor (CEO of Cybera, the NPO local EDU provider) walked into an AlbertaIX board meeting and withheld Alberta Government seed money from AlbertaIX for the purchase of a switch --- unless I resign immediately. (It was quite a battle getting that episode into the minutes). The entire process was opaque and undemocratic from the start. It was captured.