Re: hey, remember the platform?

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On Friday 01 July 2005 02:49, Daniel Stone wrote:
> You seem to be assuming that fd.o is actually a coherent, defined
> organisation.  Which it isn't.

this is a cop out and not particularly useful.

=46D.o has a website and a public identity (brand, if you will). it has=20
documents and software associated with it, it has hardware resources, it ha=
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processes for some basic items, etc, etc..=20

whether there is a defined organization of people or not, there is certainl=
y a=20
defined entity here.

> What the platform really needs is for people to say 'I am <special
> interest group>, and what would really be useful to me is <stuff>.
> <some list> is what I would see useful in a platform, and <other stuff>
> is what I would see as counter-productive. =C2=A0Please feel free to run
> ideas by me.'=20

i agree. where i seem to diverge from most others here is that i don't beli=
eve=20
these people are going to magically appear. i think there needs to be some=
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leadership excercised to reach out and help find these people and show them=
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the path here. once here, i think things can go well. but i do not see thes=
e=20
people appearing magically of their own accord to be realistic.

i say this because it hasn't happened yet.

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA  EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43

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