Geoff seems to be painting a picture of me burning the midnight oil every night at the keyboard. This may be true on odd occasions but as a general thing, this is not the case. I receive great support from all sorts of people, some known to you - John Mason is and has been a great pillar of strength which I have leant on heavily at times - some only on the fringes of the QL fellowship - like our printer John Shelton who spends a lot of time in answering my frequent questions - and some who have no QL or Quanta connection at all like my younger son who is an IT consultant and frequently gets me back on track. This is NOT a "One man band" and Geoff is right when he says that we desperately need more support 'on the bridge'. Yes, only 10 days left to nominate that person known to you who perhaps just needs that little push to come forward. Believe me, 'A problem shared is a problem halved'.
regards to all, John Gilpin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "gwicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Today 20 years ago... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Tubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:01 AM > Subject: Re: [ql-users] Today 20 years ago... > > >> To the King of Ur >> >> Great web page, most informative and comprehensive. >> >> Quanta should learn ! >> > > A fair comment and an opportunity for me to make another personal > statement > on the state of Quanta. > > One person at the moment has the task of treasurer, membership secretary, > magazine designer and webmaster. He is overloaded with Quanta duties and > has > to make priorities. He has rightly chosen to make the website the least of > these. > > The most urgent priority for Quanta is the magazine and members will have > noticed a much improved print quality in the last issue, and also in the > next that should be with them very shortly. Unseen to the members are > experiments to investigate downloading and the indications from the first > two download issues are that there are some difficult technical problems > regarding file size and image quality to overcome. I think they can be > overcome, but it will take time. > > Having seen the thorough way in which John Gilpin is working on the > magazine, I am sure that when he has completed this job we shall see a > much > improved website. > > This raises the point that I raised in my last personal statement. Two > members of the present committee are retiring and unless Quanta gets new > blood on the committee - and there are only 10 nomination days left - then > it could be too small to be viable. > > As far as membership and finance is concerned there is no reason why > Quanta > cannot exist for a minimum of another 5 years. As far as organisation is > concerned the 2007 AGM could be the one where Quanta is wound up, > > Best Wishes, > > Geoff > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
