Hello All, Late last year I may have contacted several of you personally as I spent significant time researching the opportunity for an initiative toward metrication that would have specific, measurable and achievable results. Briefly, I concluded that what may be a necessary commitment would be to select a target date for metrication in the US and direct ALL activities related to that......2020.
While passionately committed to metrication ( I grew up in Colonial Central Africa, experienced a change from 'feet 'n inches' through a national metrication period, experienced the decimalization of UK currency...then see the mixed messages in our schools, business and social lives in the US) I know this is a monumental task and has to be treated and run as a business - certainly not voluntary......and I already have a broad business plan. This would be my working life time commitment....and I constantly being nudged to proceed. If you are seriously interested, please let me know and I can spend the next quarter (to June 30, 2004) listening, connecting and formulating with all who can significantly and seriously contribute as influencers, movers and shakers. Until recently, I led the worldwide online community initiative for IBM's Billion dollar WebSphere brand - I know the power of communication and conversation as I started this project from scratch! One particular huge challenge is exposed in a great ref. book - "Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History by Andro Linklater Sincere regards, Michael Mande [EMAIL PROTECTED] New York, USA (1) 914 478-8328 |-----Original Message----- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Behalf Of Ma Be |Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:58 PM |To: U.S. Metric Association |Subject: [USMA:29163] Re: Pro metric lobby? | | |I share in your disappointment, Ward, that's why I went from a |"discusser" to a... "doer"! And (please forgive me for saying...) |to the heck with those that don't like my "metric time" construct! | I've adopted it already and love it (every percentime minute of |it... :-) ). AND, on top of that, there is no need to amend |the SI system to accommodate it!!! ;-) | |Cheers, | |Marcus | |On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:44:35 | J. Ward wrote: |>I signed up for the USMA list expecting that the main purpose of the list |>would be to organize some sort of pro-metric campaign. While I am very |>grateful for all the good work the USMA does and appreciate all |the things |>I've learned reading postings to this list, the lack of organized |political |>mobilization is still a bit of a disappointment. |> |>If we could somehow redirect the fervor for a decimal clock into |a lobby for |>organized US SI conversion, think of the wonders we could accomplish! |> |>On Wednesday 25 February 2004 09:59, Gavin Young wrote: |>> Maybe the USMA should create form letters on their website |(like the action |>> alerts of environmental websites) that will facilitate mass |mailings by all |>> USMA members and anyone else interested in SI metric. Letters |addressed to |>> various organizations can be posted. |> |> | | |____________________________________________________________ |Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! |Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus |
