[clue-admin] Focus and direction some

[Philipp Giddings]

I agree renew for now to give more time and thought to migration
Philipp

On 12/21/2010 9:41 PM, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:37:23 -0700 (MST)
> David L. Willson wrote:
>
>> But here's where I am tonight. I'm tired.
> Well, so am I. Mostly for reasons that have nothing to do with CLUE.
>
> Anyways, I'm not opposed to change. Yes, I'm opposed to some changes, but
> I think everyone knows about that already.
>
> But neither you, nor anyone, is going to solve all of our problems at
> once. That, for sure, is a recipe for tired. Focus on one thing, finish
> that, move on. And be aware that yes, when you toss out a whole big pile
> of changes all at once, that there are going to be people who go, "Huh?"
>
> So that's why I proposed setting priorities, and doing some planning.
>
>> On "passing the torch": It boggles my mind that you want to drive your
>> volunteers until they are so exhausted that they call for relief. Who
>> wants to sign up for hard, unpaid work until you can't do any more? A
>> year, sure, but forever? Not this Indian.
> Well, with a few exceptions, it's been hard to find that relief. That's
> why I don't understand the election thing. Without a slate of candidates
> contending for office, we'd be just going through some motions, and I
> don't find that energizing.
>
> If Dennis needs relief, then let's find that. Dennis ...
>
> DENNIS! Speak up man!
>
> Let's focus on identifying things we can do, and which aren't stirring
> the pot for the sake of stirring the pot.
>
> If we think that getting more people to come to meetings is the main thing
> to do, then let's identify things that work towards that. Is that the 1st
> step in getting more people interested enough in CLUE to volunteer to do
> some of the work? I admit that I don't know, because I don't know why
> participation is declining.
>
> And maybe part of the plan has to be to just make some decisions, even if
> they aren't the absolutely, full-studied, best possible thing, because we
> just need to get something done and not have that distraction for a while.
>
> So let's renew the VPSlink account. Then it won't be an immediate thing
> distracting us. And we won't need to find people/time to do a migration.
>
> Let's finish the e-mail issue.
>
> And let's not flail.
>