Re: [native-lang] New template project

On 12/10/06, Cor Nouws <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andre Schnabel wrote:
>
> >> Apologies for my lack of knowlegde, but isn't there a sort of
> >> coordination within each project, so that participants know that
> >> project-member A also reads mails from project X or Y and thus can
> >> inform the project about interesting developments at other projects??
> >
> > we tried this serveral times in the Germanophone project. In some cases
> > this works well .... in some cases not.
> > The "problem" is, that the rule is, that people *can* inform each other.
> > Nobody (no volunteer) can be forced to do so. ;-)
>
> I agree. But it is IMO the most effective and natural way to try to
> improve our own behavior.
>
> New structures, coordination, will only be as good as we bring it into
> practice...

To paraphrase Michael Frayn's famous sentence from The Tin Men:
'When system is starting to produce structures to control structures,
then system is out of control.'
;)

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