I think every time JD mentions Pick he gets a small flurry of mail and comments on his article pages from pickies to thank him and/or advise him that we're still alive and well. I'm getting the feeling that these days he's starting to toss in the word "Pick OS" just to get this side of the market to read his material.
As a fluent speaker of Esperanto, and formerly quite active in that community, I used to feel the same grass-roots obligation to inform authors that the international language is still alive and well. Just as we see here in this forum, esperantists used to solicit similar notes from fellow speakers just to let these authors know that we weren't isolated. But with so many public references to that language in the past-tense (frequently derrogatory, sound familiar?) it was always as difficult to refute its demise as it is to refute the demise of Pick. I'm sure many of you even now are thinking "Esperanto! I thought that was dead." Well, figure out how many cries in the dark it will take to make _you_ realize that Esperanto is still a living language, and you will know how effective a few notes from Pickies are to John Dvorak. I'm not saying the task is impossible, just that this needs to be approached in a more business-like, less grass-roots manner in order for it to be accepted with any credibility. That's something the U2 market _can_ pull off that the worldwide Esperanto community never could - I got a lot of publicity for Esperanto in TV, radio, newspapers, and public schools, and it still didn't help much. (Wow, that was a whole lifetime ago...) Anyway, I agree with Chuck that it would be good to get JD to Spectrum or another large venue, but: 1) That conference better have something more going for it than we've seen over the last couple years so that JD really sees some life in it, otherwise it will just prove to him that he's been right all along. 2) I hope he won't do some kind of condescending keynote to remind us of how obscure this market is, how its time has past, and how we need to get on to using relational products. That sort of posturing wouldn't go well for anyone involved, and its exactly the sort of thing one could easily expect from such an initiative unless its crafted into something more productive. Nuf outta me. T TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com http:// removethistooNebula-RnD.com/blog Dawn Wolthuis wrote: > Perhaps we should send him a note with a lot of "signatures" thanking > him for mentioning Pick on occasion and letting him know (which he > likely does already) that we are alive and well (perhaps pointing him > to the MV family tree or other materials). Cheers! --dawn > > Charles Barouch wrote: >> We need to get John to speak at >> some U2-related (or MV-related) function. Maybe if he sees we are >> healty, since he's already willing to mention us, we might get a >> first step toward some better press. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
