Hello fonc members, Over the past year I have greatly enjoyed, and benefited from, threads on this mailing list, written by individuals with far greater understanding and insight than I will ever master. The diversity, and somewhat seasonal traffic, does make me wonder if we are maximising the impact of our efforts.
Would there be value in a platform for us to; capture all the ideas and initiatives, distil them into groups, reduce them to a handful concepts to explore, and finally focus all our efforts on. Obviously that means I may have to relinquish a pet project, but I am surprisingly comfortable with it, if substantial progress on fundamentals of new computing results. Consider the typical mail from Dr. Kay. He would comment: "Back in 196x, we considered *this*, but elected to go with *that*, because of *some reason*," or "we did *this*, going forward you should consider *something else*." In my imagination I can see as many opinions as there were people in the room. Yet the language suggest the initiatives were reduced to a handful, and then pursued with vigour. Just think of what we can do by following the same pattern, and we have the added benefit of doing it as a virtual, distributed team. Significant action is needed, because I fear the odds are stacked against us. Invention receives no attention, and innovation (even when incorrectly understood) receives lip service in the press, but no current-day vehicle exists to to nurture it. The only hope I have, is that a number of talented individuals pool their energy and collaborate towards fundamentally changing computing. I am willing to start a database of ideas and initiatives if there are at least a few in the fonc group that agree in principle. Regards, Marius -- mobile: +1 604 369 1854 skype: chmdebeer twitter: twitter.com/chmdebeer
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