From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jul 25 21:31:40 2002 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17XwlP-0002xS-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:31:39 -0700 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 21:31:39 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] to-do list (was Re: New Members, Board of Directors, other LogFest results) Message-ID: <20020726042958.GH17369@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020723025544.032cba90@pop.east.cox.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20010730221611.00b10c00@pop.cais.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020723025544.032cba90@pop.east.cox.net> <20020723103956.E28971@miranda.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20020723195058.030913c0@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020724122649.032e7ec0@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020724195628.032f4c80@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020725033153.0342dc80@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020725161353.033be550@pop.east.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020725161353.033be550@pop.east.cox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-archive-position: 306 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:18:23PM -0400, Robert LeChevalier wrote: > At 11:17 AM 7/25/02 -0700, you wrote: > >Giving official priority to something costs you nothing. Just > >because you have given official priority to something does *not* mean > >you have to do it! > > > >I'm curious: have you ever just considered saying, "Well, we were > >going to do *foo*, but the person who was going to do it didn't. So > >it didn't get done. Anyone else want it?". > > I have done it, but rarely, because the comment is implicitly critical > of the original volunteer. The example that comes most to mind is > that before you, the web site redesign had been delegated to a > committee with xod and Dave Twery. Nothing was done, and part of the > problem turned out to be that the two of them couldn't communicate - > neither of them got each others' email for some reason (Twery has had > unusually poor lick with ISPs). > > I have a poor sense for how long a wait is "long enough" when people > have gone away without a word and coming back a year later, suddenly > bursting out in productivity. Fair enough. Perhaps you could agree with the person on a time frame? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/