[bestbits] [governance] Call for Participation: Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, 2015

[Nick Ashton-Hart]

Dear Parminder, nobody can stop you from assuming the worst, but that 
doesn't make it true. Candidly, it does increase the overall hostility on 
the list, which seems to me the opposite of what this liat needs.

As to your question, which has been asked and answered before several times 
in different forms in this list and the ICC list too, yes I am. Even more 
so given my present professional post ends in a few days at the end of this 
month.



On 23 May 2015 19:24:46 parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

>
>
> On Saturday 23 May 2015 10:01 PM, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
> > +1
>
> Not sure what you are plus-one-ing to, Nick, but if indeed you want to
> make a spectacle of it, well fine by me... I was trying a reasoned
> discussion on what kind of civil society spaces we need to promote
> public interest but you dont seem to be wanting any of it. You are
> baying for blood, so as to say.
>
> So, let me ask you, since you are dispensing gratuitous advice on what
> should be the nature of civil society, and indeed what is an ok subject
> to discuss on the bestbits list, are you a civil society member. Just a
> direct question for self identification . Last time I checked BestBits
> was a civil society coalition, and while it may be so that we may not
> really  be too fussy about people observing proceedings and also maybe
> sometimes do a post or too, but you are actually telling how bestbits
> group should conduct its business, and I also have seem numerous
> comments of a similar kind about the IGC list.
>
> Thanks for the information, and no offense personally. Your example is
> quite a good and live one for my discussion on the problematic
> construction of civil society spaces in the IG area. I would have tried
> to not directly talk about it, just not to hurt anyone, but since you
> are pushing the issue hard I dont think I need to have any of such qualms.
>
> Have a good day!
>
> parminder
> >
> >> On 23 May 2015, at 17:42, Claudio Ruiz <claudio at derechosdigitales.org> 
> wrote:
> >>
> >> With all due respect, I don’t have the time neither the energy of 
> answering a 1,500 words email.
> >> Happy to engage in long discussions face to face or with a beer. Not by 
> email in a mailing list. That’s the whole point, at the end.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> —Claudio Ruiz
> >> derechosdigitales.org | @claudio
> >> PGP fingerprint
> >> C40E 0C6E E7B2 FA91 D8A9 1FC4 74D2 5C4D B603 D089
> >>
> >>> On 23-05-2015, at 4:32, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> (…)
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