Hi Dave,
Admittedly I kind of ignored that digression, not knowing much about
the issue, and frankly not caring to know. Which is not at all meant
to trivialize that part of the conversation... its just not mine.
I know there is some old and apparently deep division amongst the two
groups. I have never felt like I was part of either group to the
exclusion of the other... or UPA, SIG-CHI, DMI and others. They are
all a subset of how I see role professionally. And I think a lot of
folks on these boards feel that way as well.
And for the record... I don't think there is anything to be gained by
joining the to groups in any fashion. The two groups approach related
work and overlapping efforts with distinctly different
perspectives... both valid and both important in their own right.
Homogenization is not necessary or beneficial. I do think that it
makes total sense to get over what ever bad blood is there and
collaborate. We will be much stronger if these two entities remain
separate and work together... and in fact along side ISDA, and even
the AIGA.
Mark
On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Dave Malouf wrote:
Mark & Richard,
much of the content of the talk was spot on.
he lost me at his mis-information about what went down between IAS
and IxDA this year. He mis-represented IxDA completely and demonized
the organization totally unnecessarily. His point was clear w/o doing
that, and he lost my respect for not doing the truly respectful and
professional thing of either staying out of it, providing both points
of view, or finding out the truth.
It actually demonstrated for me clearly that JJG is too biased by his
background of the IA community first (he's done nothing to engage
this community, unlike Peter M., his partner), which is really my
main point when speaking to Richard in this thread.
- -dave
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