Horst Herb wrote: > On Tuesday 19 September 2006 17:55, Tony Eviston wrote: >> a group of enthusiasts can pull it off. Getting groups with a bit more >> leverage involved from the start would be desirable from my point of view. > > As desirable as getting a leg amputated before you get into starting position > in a race. > If you involve such organization and their funding you will be bogged down in > endless (and fruitless) discussions, waste your energy in a zillion of > useless sub-committees, spend most of your funds on unproductive talkfests, > and you have to tip-toe through minefields of political correctness where it > becomes impossible to tell idiots that they are idiots and instead you have > to allow them to waste your time. > > I think I have learnt a lot from past mistakes. What I think would work is a > small private investment buying software contractors's time to implement > specific tasks within a specific time frame. >
I didn't plan that the project would be a democracy, Horst. These organizations would be privy to the development process and have the ear of the steering committee but it would be clear from the outset that we are planning a model project rather than a model democracy. Tony _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
