On combining the lists: Ok, this is silly beyond belief. And I can't believe I'm going to give the IA lecture here.
Membership to a list is metadata. it is a filtering system. There is nothing preventing you from opening your filter wider and saying I want all the messages. It's just virtual. Now 1 could say that when Conan is done we'll have other mechanism to achieve that filtering system (tag as IA, research, IxD, etc.) but there is one type of filter that *I* want to maintain and that is people. I feel like you haven't been listening to me Richard. I have said this 5 times in this thread. IAI and IxDA does not have as high a percentage of overlap as you think in the people department. It isn't about "devaluing" as much as it is about "respect". Maybe I take this a tad personally b/c of how much work I brought here, but I could imagine others feeling like me. Imagine 5 years ago, or 8 years ago and someone walked into the IA Summit, or into an IAI Board meeting and claim that your org, your community and your efforts should be ended. Just think about this as a design problem. Even if you are right (and hell, considering how many times i've been wrong, you probably are), is this REALLY the way to elicit transformation, but entering someone's home and saying, "change now" ... And oh! we have a petition and everything. There's a reason why things are not "transparent" and why things move slowly. Join UXNet, put your energy there if that maps more to your goals and get in the trenches. I think you will find a very messy reality with a challenging design problem. one I decided I have no energy or passion for, as it no longer maps for me. But if it does for you, at least have enough respect and comportment to the due diligence and creative thinking and relationship management that it will take to even begin to move things forward. If that sounds overly complex and bureaucratic to you, well b/c it is. Reasons #1 I gave up on UXNet. (which is why I think they've taken a different tact, though I'm not looped in any longer). - dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40597 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
