In December of last year, Pat posted a mail in response to one of mine pointing out that leadership is what's needed to make this fly.
In April, Harry posted a message about being pessimistic at our current approach towards metrication and the lack of progress we're currently making. Remek replied to this pointing out that we need to follow a more sales like approach and cast it in the light of "if you do this you can make/save a _lot_ of money". When I started the Go Metric site, it was my intention to have a place that we could use to band together to become more politically active and more effective at promoting metrication (thus I based it on a wiki so that anyone could add information to the site). It was pretty much entirely motivated by Pats statement about a lack of leadership and I was (and still am) hoping to provide that leadership. In that light, I've started putting together a vision and a set of goals we can work towards. http://gometric.us/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Vision The corresponding thread on the forum is: http://gometric.us/jforum/posts/list/48.page Obviously, this is just a start. If we're going to actually make a difference, we need to work together to set and _achieve_ goals that lead to a final vision. I truly think that metrication is achievable in the USA, we just need to be focused the end goal and the steps that directly lead to it. Paul -- End dual-measurement, let's finish going metric! http://gometric.us/ http://www.metric.org/
