From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Thu Jul 25 09:44:32 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 25 Jul 2002 16:44:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 76968 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 16:44:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Jul 2002 16:44:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 16:44:32 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17Xlj5-00041v-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:44:31 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17Xlj0-00041e-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:44:27 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.10.13] ident=root) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17Xliv-00041V-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:44:22 -0700 Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp139.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.139]) by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6PGiGn27735 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:44:16 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <3D405568.1040903@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:45:44 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020610 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] to-do list (was Re: New Members, Board of Directors, other LogFest results) References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020724195628.032f4c80@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020723195058.030913c0@pop.east.cox.net> <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> <018e01c23350$150a6c00$73a1ca3e@oemcomputer> <5.1.0.14.0.20020724195628.032f4c80@pop.east.cox.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020725005938.03655ec0@pop.east.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr id g6PGiGn27735 X-archive-position: 286 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: robin Reply-To: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810606 X-Yahoo-Profile: digambaranath On the subject of to-dos and delegating, one point that I think is important is that people who take on tasks should make it clear how much of the task they are prepared to commit to (whole thing, rough draft, or just kicking it off) and notify the community when they decide they've done enough. For example, the lessons got finished for two reasons. The obvious one was that Nick was prepared to spend a lot of time editing and completing them (not to mention all the proof reading by other Lojbanists, notably Nora). The less obvious, but equally important one, was that when I'd done as much as I felt I could do, I notified the Lojban community and asked for volunteers to take over. The results exceeded my expectations - I'd been hoping someone would debug the existing lessons and maybe write one or two more; what happened was a publishable book. robin.tr -- "There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't" - thinkgeek.com Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin