Why did Roeland Meyer resign as a director of the TLDA? INSIDE SCOOP

[Joe Baptista]

Roeland Meyer resigned as a director of the TLDA today.  The reasons behind this move has nothing to do with book publishing.  It has everything to do with common sense.  I asked Roeland Meyer to tender his resignation a few days ago.  And I thank him for doing so.

Roeland has not participated in a board meeting for years.  So it's simple common sense to vacate the position.  He's hung on hopping the TLDA drama queens in charge of the show would get their act together and do some serious work.   And he is  I think disappointed.   He was recently asked to participate in a board meeting held by Bradley Thornton and Karl Peters that passed a resolution.  Directors David Scott and Peter Dambier were not invited to this teleconference meeting. 

Roeland was not made aware that the resolution by the board to establish banking facilities had designated Mr. Scott as the officer in charge - not Bradley Thornton.   He was not made aware of Mr. Scott's objections to the motion on membership dues.

I personally feel Bradley Thornton and Karl Peters should be ashamed of calling a board meeting with an inactive director for the sole purpose of tricking him into passing resolutions and faling to provide notice of the meeting to all directors.  This smells of collusion to a fraud.

In any case Roeland is gone.  He is a director with vision.  I think he will come back once we kick the drama queens out of the TLDA and start acting and delivering like the profession association we claim to be and not the circus of clowns we now have pretending to be in charge.

I would say what we have here in this resignation is another vote of non confidence.

cheers
joe baptista

p.s. Roeland's resignation letter follows.


-------- Original Message --------
From:   Roeland Meyer <Roel...@RoelandMeyer.Org>
To:     <bo...@tldainc.org>
Date:   Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:13:24 +0200
Subject:        [Board] My board seat on the TLDA
Sender:         board-...@tldainc.org



Recent events have made it clear to me that I need to resign my TLDA
membership and curtail my activities in that area. Therefore, I am
resigning my Board seat such that the TLDA can use it to have someone
that has more time for the activity.



I thank you all for letting me serve. I regret that I cannot do more and
it is better that I allow someone else who does have the time available
to occupy my seat and membership.



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R O E L A N D   M J   M E Y E R

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mailto: Roel...@RoelandMeyer.Org

http://RoelandMeyer.Org

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[Hugh Dierker]

Truly unremarkable --- On Mon, 6/15/09, Joe Baptista <bapt...@publicroot.org> wrote: