Tue Jun 24 18:48:58 PDT 2008 | Transformus No Longer A Regional Burning Man Event

[Transformus Web]

Dear Mysterians,

It is with great sadness and discomfort that Transformus is no longer
an
official Burning Man Regional Event. The Board of Directors received
an
e-mail from Burning Man yesterday stating all of the allegations and
formal
complaints made by the community. The decision to make Transformus
not an
official burn was based on the BOD's lack of Civic Responsibility and
Transparency. An official statement will be released from Burning Man
soon
entailing all of the details in depth with there reasoning.

We as BOD would just like to let everyone know that at no point in
time did
we mean for any of this to happen and we did our best to make sense of
the
madness that has occurred this year leading up to Transformus 2008.
For all
of those in the community who wanted action and change you have
officially
been granted the reward of making Transformus an Unofficial burn.
Never
once did we as BOD mean to cause drama and angst in the community. We
are
just a group of normal people, who tried to the best of our abilities
to
bring you to the magical place that is known as Mysteria. We are only
human
and the lack of Civic Responsibility and Transparency was never at any
point
in time meaningfully sought out.

As many of you know most of the BOD members have resigned b/c of all
of the
negative energy, heart ache, and personal reasons that have develop
our the
past few months. Moving forward however there will be great changes
that
will take place after Transformus 2008 has happened in order to re-
build our
community that seems to be filled with so much anger. With that being
said,
the BOD opens up to the community as to where the future lies in
running
this event after Transformus 2008. For those of you who have wanted
answers
and decisions and change I ask you to step up to the challenge of
making
Tranformus the way the community wants it to become. There are still
just a
few BOD members including myself that will help facilitate the means
to
making the situation at hand better after the event

Finally, to all of you who are still coming and making it to
Transformus
2008 we want to personally thank you for believing in the magical
place know
as Mysteria b/c regardless of all the drama, anger, and confusion we
will
rise to make Transformus 2008 the best burn to date.

Sincerely,

DTR

Transformus BOD