just noticed the new line on your signature Didactylos

may i recomend you modify your signature from
"New: World Community Grid on Facebook"
to mabey
"New: Unoficial World Community Grid on Facebook"
or mabey
"New: show your WCG support on Facebook with my app"

or something to the effect that dosnt make the app misleading and sounding offical

humm could you link me the thread where this was discussed since i dont see it or missed it.

they should be able to contact the company who dosnt want to produce there product and give them a make more or we are takeing our rites back or something.??? not a legal wiz or anything like that

I DIDNT KNOW THEY WERE ON FACEBOOK--MAYBE THEY SHOULD HAVE SENT A E-MAIL TO LET MEMBERS KNOW--i KNOW YOU CAN FIGURE A WAY TO DO YOUR OWN THING--I DONT SEE HOW IT COULD BE THAT SERIOUS

Not serious???? A valued member, who has been a CA for 3 years, is stripped of his role in the organization, without being given a chance to solve the conflict. Not serious??? WOW

Oh, cripes.

Didactylos, I'm sorry this has happened.

It's the kind of thing that, while they're "within their rights" to do, they're not "in their right mind". The long ago incident with the merchandise that went under the radar until you ran afoul of it just cinches it.

I've done work for other non-profits before. I love the work and believe in the moral imperative to do so. What I've seen time and time again is that personal pettiness and power plays seem to creep into NPOs from time to time in the weirdest ways, sometimes with devastating effect, sometimes merely to decide who's "in" or "out" of the approved list of people.

(I know what I'm talking about here. In my time I've been laid off from an under-paid job at an NPO due to inter-agency politics, a combination of competition to get the job done which turned into contention about competency. My father got laid off as an area director of a larger organization and was in the fine position of having to break the news to his employees and explain the organization's position while being angry and frustrated with their reasoning himself.)

I think what it comes down to is this: NPOs come, naturally, to view their position as tenuous and fragile -- and the people who work for them tend to feel both powerless to change that and powerless to defend themselves against the threat that implies. There are many different kinds of responses people can exhibit, one is to become a petty manipulator, another is to go about being overly defensive, still another is to strive to do even better regardless of what's going on, and still others.

If anything, at a guess, this is probably just an overly conservative reaction out of fear of repercussion. Facebook's a good app, your app's a good app within a good app, but one of the quirks about Facebook is how much access to private information it has, which makes it a hot potato. That, and the fact that they WCG got burned by mis-handling their IP in the past to the point where they themselves are not allowed to market it has to put them in a very weird and defensive position regarding the WCG logo and where and when it appears. They're probably over-reacting, but out of fear of getting it wrong a second time. At least that's my guess. (I tend to assume the better of people, sometimes too often, but that's the way I roll.)

As much as it stings in symbolic terms, at least they didn't get silly enough to kick you out of the forums. Meaning you can still act as an adviser to the community in unofficial terms. I don't mean that in a diminishing way, but rather just to say I'm glad to see you're still about and can still opine at whim and pitch in.

--random