----- Original Message ----- From: "David Tubbs"
To an outsider it looks like Geoff is Minister without portfolio, and a bit of a maverick to boot !
Like I have said before on this list, in my days as a probation officer I was assessed on a training course as a "constructive subversive".
Another hangover I have from my probation officer days is that when people make an agreement with me I expect them to keep it. If not, I punch hard.
Best of luck to him if he is trying to get things moving.
Seems a bit like part of the dog asking the tail to wag the dog. Do the articles not stipulate a duty on the officers, should they not pro-actively poll the membership with a choice of possible projects ? Then extract the digits, make something happen !
Work is out for yourself. There are 6 people on the Quanta committee. Two of us monitor this list and another is an active member of a subgroup. How do the other three keep up to date with QL developments? If their contact with other QL-ers is mainly fellow committee members, then there is a danger the committee will develop, metaphorically speaking, into a mutual masturbation group.
Put in a practical way. Quanta was not present at QL2004, the most important international show for 4 years. Of the six committee members only one has first hand knowledge of QL2004, one has good second hand knowledge and 4 have no knowledge or at best filtered third hand knowledge. In all honesty have they the skills to run QL2005?
But then are Quanta members any better than the committee? I have become a little bit sick of people *whispering* in my ear that they are on my side.
Finally the QL2005 score:
3 Quanta members are interested 297 Quanta members are not interested
The verdict is clear. 'nuff said,
Best Wishes, Geoff
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