You're right on, Darrick!!! Perhaps you're somewhat... "new" to this forum, I don't know. But I've been trying (and unfortunately quite unsuccessfully so far, I might add... :-( ) to "sell" this idea for years here that we should indeed not only get organized better, but to treat this as a *business*! I.e. with a mission, goal, strategic plan and the whole works. But so far it has largely fallen on deaf years... sigh... But I still hope that you and a few others, like Andy Johnson (hey, Andy, are you listening out there? :-) ...) would finally agree to create an organization like I did (GO SI EH) - or better still... join it... ;-) , sit down and really seriously hammer out a strategic plan of action to get this done. I'd like to believe that I have made a simple and very humble contribution to this when I finally took GO SI EH off the ground. I just wished I had more time to dedicate to this, but studying for a PhD, working and taking care of a family haven't left me with much time left for the cause... But I haven't given it up at all obviously (currently I'm working on a document to release to our Brazilian President urging him to put tough requirements vis-a-vis the issue of metric products and labels for ALCA - FTAA in the next coming week). At least I got the web page up and running (for now...) while I'm still working on getting an "official" site to park these pages up for a decent price. I'm hoping that this coming summer I'll finally be able to get on with this part. Evidently here goes my invitation for you to join us and anyone who feels like you! ;-) United we conquer, isolated we perish, it's as simple as that indeed! Take care, and please feel free to talk directly to me on this subject if you wish. I promise I'll do what I can to help. Best regards, Marcus On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:08:10 Darrick Priest wrote: >Yesterday, I took the time to go through all of our toiletries to see which items >were sold in units of metricmetric first, imperial last. I then called those >companies and thanked them for using and promoting the metric system. Those >companies that didnt, I thanked them anyway for showing the metric units; however, I >then suggested that it would be to their advantage to switch to metric first or >metric only labels. Give it a try! >Its good to see that my plan has some support so Im through talkingIm going to >work. First, I need to know if we are going to support the USMA wholly; do we need >to find a new, more vociferous organization; do we create our own group? Lets get a >census on this. Next, I need to know if there are people in the San Francisco Bay >Area who are willing to recruit new members for the organization we choose to support >(if you dont live anywhere near the Bay Area, you can still implement the plan in >your area). One more thing: We need to find corporate sponsorship so that we can >give rewards for joining (i.e. 3-meter measure tape, two metric rulers, booklet). > >Im tired of all the talking. Its time that we become organized and polarized! > > P.S. If you had trouble with my e-mailed plan, entitled, For What Its Worth then >I will repost it without it being in an outlined formit appears that, for all my >efforts to be neat and through, Yahoo e-mail disemboweled the outlined plan. My >apologies to all who received this mangled missive. > > > >--------------------------------- >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. Who needs Cupid? Matchmaker.com is the place to meet somebody. FREE Two-week Trial Membership at http://www.matchmaker.com/home?rs=200015
