Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?

its all because of this TRIBE moderator business isnt it?!


i knew it!! tribe would be the end of burning man!!!

Definitions of tontine on the Web:

* A club whose participants contributed equally at perhaps a penny a week to a prize that was awarded to the participant who survived; from Lorenzo ...
althistsoc.users.btopenworld.com/glossary.html

* a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members
* an annuity scheme wherein participants share certain benefits and on the death of any participant his benefits are redistributed among the remaining participants; can run for a fixed period of time or until the death of all but one participant
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* A tontine is an investment vehicle which combines features of a group annuity, group life insurance, and a lottery.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine

* Tontine is a potential reality television game show due to air in the Fall of 2008 that is being produced by Tontine Productions LLC.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine (TV show)

* a form of investment in which, on the death of an investor, his share is divided amongst the other investors
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tontine

OK I'll bite; who was it and what were the 'circumstances'?

What a sad, sad day. So, so sad.

Do they get to keep their limited liability?

Dear Burning Man Staff, It is with great consideration and a bit of sadness that I am writingyou now to say I am resigning from the Black Rock City LLC and my dutieswith Burning Man. I have had the privilege of creating much of theinfrastructure and process you work with. I hope that I have had apositive effect on the culture of Burning Man that we all share andspread. My favorite part of everything I have been involved with hasbeen working with all of you. If anyone ever wonders what Burning Manreally is I can say I know. It is you, the people that make it happen.Thank you for sharing this time with me. It has been an honor. I have been with the organization for 17 years. It has been my lifework thus far. When I started it was everything for me. Though I hadanother full time job and “did Burning Man” as a volunteer effort, itquickly eclipsed everything else I did and was. I spent may yearsimmersed in my work. Somehow along the way, though it seemed that therewas not the time or space, I managed to create a wonderful family. Asmy daughter grows I can see there is a world beyond the one I have sohappily been living in. I am leaving the organization to spend moretime with my daughter and explore what else I have to offer. I will be leaving at the end of January. I look forward to seeing howquickly my footsteps are filled and how the new opportunities that mydeparture creates will be addressed. This is prime time fororganizational change and growth. I am excited to see how this talentedgroup will prosper. With fond regards, Harley K. Dubois

the question is: why did she leave the LLC? She could have dropped most of her responsibilties and remained a member. It's not like all the other members carry an equal load of the work. And, so far anyway, they haven't replaced her on the LLC with a new member.

My guess is some sort of drama went on behind the scenes... nothing new, and no biggie.

Y'all tickle me.

Is Burning Man a life sentence? Can't people get interested in something else and want to pursue other goals in life? A sustainable organization should be set up so that people would be *expected* to move on to something else in their life at some point. People get interest in other things.

I say "happy trails" and thanks for all the hard work.

G