A quick potted history of the DAG
Posted 03/10/2009 - 11:32 by ng
DAG is an abbreviation for KSFIOM Depositors Action Group. The DAG is the collective members of the ksfiomdepositors site. This is and has always been the case, right from the start. If you are in doubt please check with Mat Walker, who was the guy who set the site up (with assistance from one other) and chose the name "KSFIOM Depositors Action Group" and the domain name ksfiomdepositors.com (10-Oct-2008). For various reasons and with Mat's support, the site was later moved to the ksfiomdepositors.org address and shortly afterwards was split to become the public and forum (chat) sites that we know today.
Not long after the DAG's creation, individual members began to establish "teams" (or sub-groups) within the DAG. One early attempt was the so-called Core group, set up by Mat and myself around 17-Oct-2008. We identified a number of potential key-players and invited them to join a hidden discussion area on the site (the content of which still exists today but is not accessible by anyone other than me.)
To cut a long story short, the original Core sub-group split to eventually become what are now the DST and PPD sub-groups. The reasons for the split were primarily: (a) Incompatible needs due to deposit size and situation (e.g. in-flight funds) and (b) Considerable mis-trust of one or more individuals who had been allowed to join the Core group, based on their publicly documented history. Essentially, Diver went off in one direction and Hopper in another.
Sleeplessnight (a member of Diver's "London Team") and others put in a huge amount of work in establishing press contacts, and in doing so frequently indicated that they represented the DAG. The London Team later became the Legal Team and eventually DST (with actual membership changing to some extent.) It would seem that along the way they gradually changed from indicating that they represented the DAG to indicating that they were the DAG.
As an aside, Mat Walker is occasionally still active on this site (most recently around mid August this year.)
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Thanks Mat and ng for establishing the DAG group - a mainstay of support and information for us all in the last year. Despite differences in directions, DAG is an action group for all depositors with KSFIOM and important to remain a representative of all sub groups. Its effectiveness can only be as good as the sum of all the different parts and co-ordination and co-operation should remind us of the totally cohesive spirit of us all, to obtain 100% restoration of our deposits as exhibited back in October 2008.