Re: Discussing issues

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:32:24PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
>David Dawes writes:
> > 
> > I'm not opposed to communication and effective dialogue between
> > related projects that have interdependencies.  Whether you achieve
> > that by creating some sort of formalised "umbrella", or whether
> > you just encourage people to get invovled in these related projects,
> > or whether you use some other mechanism, it just needs to be
> > workable, with the effectiveness of the dialogue being the only
> > useful metric.
>
>There is way too much deliberation on how to start this dialog.
>I would therefore like to restate an idea that has just been 
>brought up by Mike Harris:
>
>Why don't we turn this list into a forum where different related
>projects can meet and discuss their ideas? In a way it has been
>this from the beginning. We just have to shift from discussing
>*how* to discuss things to actually doing it.
>
>Maybe this idea is too bold ;-)

Actually that's what this list is supposed to be about!

I can see how the events surrounding its creation have probably
obscured that fact.

David
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David Dawes
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