Hi Ben
Thank GOD I'm not the only one that sees this and spoke up.
We need to hang together or we will indeed hang separately!
Seriously, I think that there is a great deal of work being done.
Unfortunately our coordination is lacking (too few people doing too many
things with too few concise communications). There is about a dozen ways to
do this and I too have suggested several. It really does not matter, we just
need to pick a direction and go. No more Mr. Nice Guy or mass vote/inputs
from everyone in the world.
The suggestion about the "[LBS]" filtered email is a unique idea. I get
about 100+ emails a day and unless I identify something in the title, it
stands about a 99.99% chance of getting deleted. A weekly snapshot of the
whole project would help also.
I too am stretched thin with work and school so I feel really bad about
tossing out ideas and not being able to do more. However, we need to get
more members involved. As a go-no-go test I asked a few SLUGs about the LBS
and either they had no idea what it was or they had no idea who to ask. Some
people are willing to help, but just don't know WHAT to do or WHO to ask.
ALL GNHLUG groups need to ACTIVELY seek out the less active member and ask
if they can help in some small way. If we divide the tasking up between more
people the more we stand to get things done. We also need to get them done
EARLY! It is far easier to have a web site for our mock business ready NLT 1
April and find/fix bugs than to wait until the morning of 29 April and we
ALL look stupid when site fails. People are more likely to identify a faulty
or FUBAR demonstration than remember a well delivered speech(aka actions
speak louder than words).
Damn it. I'm getting too verbose again. It is all you fault Ben ;-)
Rick
:-)
T-65 days and counting
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 9:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jerry
Cc: GNHLUG Organization List
Subject: [LBS] Soapbox
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jerry wrote:
> Time for a check in to see where we are.
Good move.
First, we need someone who is officially running this thing. Who is the
boss? Lori? Jerry? Someone else?
What we need the most right now is a leader. A committee might be good
for
deciding things, but for making sure things get done on time once we decide
to
do them, you need a dictator. :-)
Ask Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox. Design issues in Linux may be hashed out
in
Open Source fashion, but when it comes to shipping a stable kernel, Linus
says
"Feature Freeze in two weeks", and that is *it*. Then he hands the whip to
Alan, who applies it without mercy until the bug list is solved.
(I'm not volunteering for this position; I just started a new job, and I
cannot in good faith commit the time and effort to being a
manager/coordinator
right now. I apologize for this; normally, I would at least put my money
where my mouth is. I owe karma on this.)
Mark my words: If we don't have a single someone with a metaphorical whip
to make sure people move, we're not going to pull this off in the time we
have. :-)
Second soap box issue: I've CC'ed this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
because that is where this discussion should be taking place. We created
the
gnhlug-org list for just this purpose, we need to make sure we use it.
**Communication is critical!** We need to make sure we don't exclude anyone
who might potentially want to be involved! There are a *lot* of good people
willing to help; by closing off the discussion you prevent people from
saying,
"Hey, I can do that", and jumping in. A private mail is a closed mail. :-)
Use the org list. I can't stress this enough. :-)
Use the org list. Use the org list. Use the org list. :-)
I recommend the convention of putting [LBS] in the subject line, so people
can setup filters for all Linux Business Show information.
I'm going to follow up to the less meta-organizational issues and more
LBS-related issues only to the gnhlug-org@ list.
-- Ben Scott
GNHLUG Resident Loud Mouth
Dealer in Soap Boxes
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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