Kampot Survival Guide Update.
As many of you may know, about a month ago I was pleased to announce the rescue plans for the Kampot Survival Guide, sadly I am no longer pleased.
The rescue was necessary only to continue the production of the guide for the coming year as I have left the country for a while. The plan was started by friends who told me Eoin Ó Donnghaile would be happy to run the guide until I returned and once again took the reins of the guide I started and run for over 10 years.
I spent the first two weeks of this rescue plan helping them setup and run the guide, I gave Eoin Ó Donnghaile access to my sales email account and made him an administrator of the Kampot Survival Guide Facebook page and the group that is tied to it. I supplied Eoin Ó Donnghaile with all files needed to continue the guides production, I also gave instructions on where to find the necessary software and how to use it.
But sadly at the end of this first two weeks I became aware Eoin Ó Donnghaile had his own plans for my little guide book, he decided on making it into a sudo mini "Asia Life" thus changing the guide to a point it no longer resembled the old KSG, it was in fact a totally new magazine!
I started to express my dismay at these changes and was fobbed off by Eoin Ó Donnghaile who just kept saying "Judge the finished product." I suggested that if it was a totally new guide why did they need the name Kampot Survival Guide. I came to realise this was not a group of folks keeping my guide going, they were stealing the name and ditching me and my input. So I deleted my files hosted on the sales email account as obviously they were not going to use them. The following day I found I could no longer access this sales email account, neither could I post on my Facebook page as Eoin Ó Donnghaile had removed my administrative privileges, my guide book had effectively been stolen!
So, over the past two weeks I have been in daily contact with Eoin Ó Donnghaile to have my Admin rights restored and trying to get Eoin Ó Donnghaile to rename the guide he is making to something else as it is not the KSG I founded and the name has basically been stolen from me. He, in his own words offered an olive branch and said he would rename the guide to the Kampot Survivors Guide, this I have approved and as such thought I could get my Facebook page back as the names are different, but to no avail as he has re-named the page. I then asked Eoin Ó Donnghaile to delete my content on the Facebook page as practically all of the content was personal and tied to the Kampot Survival Guide, he again fobbed me off and has done nothing of what he said he will do.
So here I am, dispossessed of the guide book I founded and run for over ten years, the name stolen, the Facebook page stolen, my work stolen and all because I trusted a guy called Eoin Ó Donnghaile, do not fall into this trap yourself!
Lessons Learnt.
1. Trust nobody.
2. Never give administrative privileges to anybody on your Facebook page.
3. Do not do business with Eoin Ó Donnghaile as he has proven himself to be dishonest, morally questionable and basically a thief.
The Future.
I plan to re-launch The Kampot Survival Guide ready for the high season next year, it will be in the same format it has always been, it will be up-to-date and will not be affiliated with Eoin Ó Donnghaile in any way at all.
Dismay is Kampot - survival guide
Dismay is Kampot - survival guide
Drama down under in Kampot (from the Kampot noticeboard):
- Steve Zodiac
- Suspicious
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It's just like "The Purge" night down Kampot since Sihanoukville went all Blade Runner .
- violet
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Perhaps it was a miscommunication? He came out of the gates all fired up. Did he think he'd been gifted it to do as he wished?
And there seem to have been technical issues that had to be contended with.
In fact, even Steve said it was 'rescued'.
And there seem to have been technical issues that had to be contended with.
In fact, even Steve said it was 'rescued'.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
- Plutarch
Deleted already I assume? Isn't Ian also a mod of the mein kamfpot Noticeboard?
- Lucky Lucan
- K440 Knight Captain
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Why would anyone call their publication a "Survival/ Survivor" Guide? It's not like it's Port Moresby or Kabul or Lagos or anything.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Not yet anyway.violet wrote:Epidemiks
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Yes.
No, at least not under any of his usual names
Jem Pumford Ive worked with both Iain (Whatever ) Donnelly and Julien Poulson (CSP) and they are both as bad as each other.. back stabbing bastards only out for them selfs.. I have a story to tell.. with emails to back it up..which I'm happy to tell.. but when a person attacks an orphanage and the founder because of what i said to him they become the lowest of the low.. Julian.. SUE ME - YOU THREATEN A ORPHANAGE AND THEIR FOUNDER TO SPLIT A RIVAL FESTIVAL to KRWF.. and now you attack Ian as you did us.. YOUR SCUM
Jem Pumford catherine (email address removed)
Jan 12
to Saraswati, me, Uon, Hayley, Sokny, Kim, sothy
Dear all,
I don’t have much time, as I have to catch a train.
Julien threatened xxx with the police and me personally with the British police, as a direct result of Jem’s Facebook post.
For xxx the way to stand up to Julien is to be honest, dignified and hard-working and to be successful. We don’t believe in public quarrels, but getting on with that which we truly believe in.
Love to all
Catherine
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None but ourselves can free our mind.
What a bunch of drama queens down in Kampot.Jem Pumford
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Admin - Please delete post if unacceptable... but..
Sometimes in life people need to be exposed for what they truly are.. I spent months working with certain people and organisations to create a unique and special festival in our little town of Kampot last year.. As it turned out i choose some wrong team members but that wasn't the problem.. Certain people in Kampot were resentful and opposed to it as they perceived it as a threat to their own micro festival and personal income (Although they are without a work permit and have been here purely on a tourist visa since they arrived many years ago whilst doing gigs etc for many many years..) THEY now attack others for their own moral high ground.. BUT when a person threatens an orphanage with legal action based on another person's comments..thats the lowest you can get.. Julian Poulson ( Cambodian Space Project) SUE ME..
Here's just one email from the founder of the orphanage..
catherine (Email address removed)
Jan 12
to Saraswati, me, Uon, Hayley, Sokny, Kim, sothy
Dear all,
I don’t have much time, as I have to catch a train.
Julien threatened xxx with the police and me personally with the British police, as a direct result of Jem’s Facebook post.
For xxx the way to stand up to Julien is to be honest, dignified and hard-working and to be successful. We don’t believe in public quarrels, but getting on with that which we truly believe in.
Love to all
Catherine
You're a fraud and true Scum.
None but ourselves can free our mind.
- Steve Zodiac
- Suspicious
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Total Anarchy! I bet the latest thread is deleted by sunrise as it's all man buns & vegan guitars in the sleepy town of Kampot. The biggest nark who has been accusing everybody else of being a twat on a short fuse appears to be a friend of the admins (he could be the next president of the USA).
Why do adults air their dirty laundry in public?
Can’t they deal with it like men - a few beers, shouting, pushing and if needed fisty cuffs.
It’s all a bit school playground.
I wonder if there’s a section in KSG on how to deal with petty disputes with other grown adults?
Can’t they deal with it like men - a few beers, shouting, pushing and if needed fisty cuffs.
It’s all a bit school playground.
I wonder if there’s a section in KSG on how to deal with petty disputes with other grown adults?
pew, pew, pew, pew!
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So to get this straight. The founder of KSG has to go home so says the rag is over - and let's face it, it looked like the sort of thing put together for a school project by someone who had just discovered Word Art, from, Word '98, christ it even made Bayon Pearnik look cutting edge.
This guy Eoin is recommended to take it on thereby saving it as it seems it was that or closure. Some small redesigns happen (judging by the second thread on the subject today by the designer) - redesign gets lots of positive feedback.
The founder gets upset about re-design as it betrayed his school projects original roots. New editor allegedly locks him out of all his accounts (which if true is a bit of a dick move to just gain the 1.4k FB users).
Some back and forth happens and the name change is agreed, though new editor keeps Facebook page. Founder gets his panties in a wad and takes this on like any true 16 year old school project lead would and writes about it on Facebook. Cue the pitchforks come out from the locals who are split into two camps of "burn the witch" , "he's a cunt" "i'm pulling my advert" versus "let him have his say".
This brings out other people who say "he's a cunt but not as bad as Julien"
As usual Noticeboard admins then delete all threads. Just another day in Kampot
This guy Eoin is recommended to take it on thereby saving it as it seems it was that or closure. Some small redesigns happen (judging by the second thread on the subject today by the designer) - redesign gets lots of positive feedback.
The founder gets upset about re-design as it betrayed his school projects original roots. New editor allegedly locks him out of all his accounts (which if true is a bit of a dick move to just gain the 1.4k FB users).
Some back and forth happens and the name change is agreed, though new editor keeps Facebook page. Founder gets his panties in a wad and takes this on like any true 16 year old school project lead would and writes about it on Facebook. Cue the pitchforks come out from the locals who are split into two camps of "burn the witch" , "he's a cunt" "i'm pulling my advert" versus "let him have his say".
This brings out other people who say "he's a cunt but not as bad as Julien"
As usual Noticeboard admins then delete all threads. Just another day in Kampot
- Wayward Woods
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This is just delaying the inevitable right?
The Chinese will take it over and start publishing it in Chinese.
The Chinese will take it over and start publishing it in Chinese.
Scobienz 3.0
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