SCAA会员就是否合并的议题进行投票的结果就要公开了，除了十位前任主席公开表示反对外，还有六位前任公开表示赞同。笔者还是（继续）炒冷饭，把现任副主席Heather Perry的回应也翻译如下。（声明，以下内容不代表笔者任何立场或观点。因为英国脱欧的原因，投票时间已比原定顺延。）投票于上周五（8月5日）结束。从SCAA披露的消息来看，超过半数的会员参与投票，最终，压倒多数（62%）的会员表示赞成。投票结果可点击“原文阅读”了解相关资讯。Tip：英文好的同学可以直接看最下方的公开信原文。“合并之好处”7月5号，SCAA的会员们将投票决定我们是否应与欧洲精品咖啡协会（SCAE）合并成为一个世界精品咖啡组织。这是广大SCAA会员、志愿者、委员会、董事会和我们在SCAE的同事们多年来的科学研究、梦想和筹划的顶峰。为此我们筹划已久，从早期合作世界咖啡师大赛（WBC）开始，到去年六月的高层领导峰会上讨论应成为怎样的全球组织，然后是计划让会员在本周二（7月5日）就该议题进行投票。许多会员经常访问scaaunification.org来查看合并的情况，并贡献了不少问题和意见。这非常有益于推动事情进展。SCAA包括我在内的十三名的董事通过这个平台阐释了不少细节，同时确保合并最优先考虑我们会员（的权益）。董事会和SCAE的高层一起制定了这个合并计划，旨在服务好我们广大会员，并将精品咖啡推上其所属的世界舞台。上月（笔者注：六月），SCAE的会员投票表决是否合并，压倒多数的人选择加入我们成为一个世界级的咖啡组织。他们的会员——咖啡师、烘焙师、咖农，还有像我们一样的咖啡从业人员——投票赞成转型为一个国际咖啡组织，如果我们也同意的话。SCAE已向我们伸出了手——如今该我们决定，是否要握住这只手？
说到底，是不是要合并取决于对我们会员有多大好处。董事会认为，首要且唯一的责任就是我们的会员，所以要想董事会支持（合并）必须惠及所有会员。据我们会员反应——包括2015年的会员调查显示——此计划有益于会员。SCAA董事会一致通过了合并计划并将其付诸会员公投，因为我们认为此计划将为会员带来以下好处：
说到底，是不是要合并取决于对我们会员有多大好处。董事会认为，首要且唯一的责任就是我们的会员，所以要想董事会支持（合并）必须惠及所有会员。据我们会员反应——包括2015年的会员调查显示——此计划有益于会员。SCAA董事会一致通过了合并计划并将其付诸会员公投，因为我们认为此计划将为会员带来以下好处：- 我们的会员重视一个共享的全球社区，两大协会的合并将加强这个现存的、充满多样性的世界精品咖啡社区，加深咖啡专业人员间的纽带。零售业——特别是小零售商的生意——将获益匪浅，他们可获取更多知识，提高全球消费者对精品咖啡的认识，更易获得好咖啡豆。合并意味着更多协作，特别是同业协会间跨地域的协作。当我们筑墙、垒坝、把自己弄成孤家寡人时，我们的情形会变坏。会员将（在合并后）看到全球化和保持个性同时并存。合并将使世界上两个最有影响力的咖啡培训项目正式联盟：SCAE咖啡证书系统（SCAE Ciffee Diploma System）和SCAA通路体系（SCAA Pathways），未来全球将只有一个课程系统，由一群专门的培训师、作者和开发人员传授。我们将能够在咖啡研究上投入更多，加强学术联系并为我们的社区产出更多科学、经济学和可持续性发展发面的研究，解决精品咖啡中的未解之谜。我们还能在本地活动上投入更多，让不同的咖啡专业人士聚集在一起，同时提高我们的全球影响力。我们的新协会将是“一人一票（One member, One vote）”，使得个人也能参与决策社区的讨论中来。
（上图为Heather Perry在指导咖啡师）我们的董事会和委员会研究了经济的影响、人员安排和合并潜在的好处，我们深信这是一个成立世界精品咖啡组织的特别机遇。好咖啡需要一个布满全球、又扎根于各国的网络，而我们执念于我们的组织应体现这种多样性和联结。我们高兴而激动地盼望会员在下周投票表决是否合并时投上“赞成”票！诚挚，Heather Perry –Vice President, SCAA Board of DirectorsHeather Perry是谁？简单八卦下这位牛人——LA的烘焙师和零售商，从业20+年；咖啡师比赛中，四次地区冠军，两次全美冠军，2007年世界亚军。之前就任美国咖啡师同业协会主席时，设计和上线了咖啡师的证书系英文原文The Benefits Of Unification: A Perspective From Heather PerryOn Tuesday, July 5, SCAA members will have the opportunity to vote on whether we should unify with the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) to form a global specialty coffee association. This is the culmination of many years of investigation, dreaming, and planning by hundreds of SCAA members, volunteers, our councils, our board of directors, and our colleagues at the SCAE. It’s been years in the making, from our early global collaborations like the World Barista Championship, to our Strategic Leadership Summit last June- where we began to sketch out what a global unified organization should look like, to the plans being put forward to our membership in the vote starting on Tuesday (July 5th).Many members have taken advantage of the ability to see the path we’ve taken by visiting scaaunification.org frequently and weighing in with questions and comments. It’s been quite a journey. The SCAA board on which I serve with 12 other coffee professionals has been there all the way, poring over details, and ensuring that any unification serves our members first. We, together with the leadership of the SCAE, came up with a plan that we believe serves the members of our organizations, and finally puts specialty coffee where it belongs—on the world stage.Last month, the SCAE membership had an election on whether to unify, and voted overwhelmingly to join with us to form a global coffee organization. Their members—baristas and roasters, farmers and coffee people just like us—voted to transfer their memberships to a global coffee organization if we met them halfway. They have extended their hand—our decision now is, do we shake it?Ultimately, that decision comes down to how it benefits our membership. Since we believe that our first and only responsibility is to our members, this must be a benefit to every member in order for us to endorse the plan. based on feedback from our membership- including a membership survey executed in 2015—we designed a plan to serve our membership better. The SCAA board voted unanimously to endorse the plan and send it to a member vote because we believe it gives the members the following benefits:- Since our members value a shared, global community, unification of the two associations reinforces the existing, diverse, global specialty coffee community and strengthens the bonds between coffee professionals.Retailers—especially smaller ones—will benefit by increased access to knowledge, greater consumer awareness of specialty coffee worldwide, increased access to better coffees, all leading to more prosperity for their businesses.Unification will enable greater collaboration, especially with the Guilds, across new geographies. We are worse off when we build walls, barriers, or isolate ourselves. Members will see the results of belonging to a cause that is global and personal at the same time.The unification will formalize the alignment of the two most impactful coffee education programs in the world, the SCAE Coffee Diploma System and SCAA Pathways, bringing a single curriculum to the world and uniting a dedicated group of educators, authors and developers.We’ll be able to dedicate more resources to coffee research, strengthening academic ties and delivering more scientific, economic, and sustainability research to our community, answering the questions that remain mysteries in specialty coffee.We’ll be able to dedicate more resources to local events, increasing opportunities for diverse coffee professionals to come together locally, at the same time that we are increasing our influence globally.Our new association will be ‘One member, One vote’, empowering individual voices in deciding the direction of our community.Our board and councils have studied the economic impacts, staff resources, and potential benefits of the unification, and we feel strongly that this is a unique opportunity to bring the global specialty coffee together. Great coffee is dependent upon a global, grassroots network of people in many countries, and we feel strongly that our association should reflect that diversity and connection.We’re thrilled and excited to recommend to our members that they vote YES when it’s time to cast their unification ballot next week.Sincerely,Heather Perry –Vice President, SCAA Board of Directors
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