On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:10:22 -0000, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote:
Axb wrote:
It would be nice to be able to use this experience to replace the SOUGHT
rules for everyone BUT:
...
All very good, reasonable and understandable reasons. And those
reasons also aply to me too. Insert all of those reasons into why I
didn't personally jump forward.
Life has many annoying ways of getting in the way of some great ideas, and
it's why an individual leaping forward has complications, however...
Question is: Can we (the SA users) get a "project" together with enough
members taking care of different tasks to ensure that the project
doesn't
die when one person decides to step out?
Yes we can!
I was disappointed to see that there wasn't a bunch of motivated
people jumping in with both feet to maintain this. I totally
understand everyone being in the same situation of never having enough
time and resources to volunteer for something like this type of
project. I am right there with you.
I didn't want to see the option whither and die without voicing a
positive cheer for it. Perhaps some more discussion would motivate
more people to become involved.
Well I think there are some legs to this too.
I've been talking to Alex about some of the aspects and things I can do do
to help. Like most of us I don't want to sign up for something that would
be a monster resting purely on my shoulders, but having gone over a few
bits and pieces it seems very manageable with just a bit of organisation
and coordination. Which is why I've offered to throw my hat in the ring
and do various bits to make this work.
I really think that's the key aspect too, obviously we all share an
interest and there's an overlap of skillsets too, which means once you
start taking apart what's planned it becomes a lot less commitment for
each of us. Alex auto generates rules for himself already, I have
something I suspect is less sophisticated in place for my needs, we're
seeing interest from other people already doing this kind of thing and
those that aren't are pretty close in the various things we know they are
doing. All in all it looks like it is close to being very viable.
The big thing that should make this worth pursuing is the somewhat
distributed nature of it all. I know in what we've discussed so far it's
looking like we'll be able to avoid the single point of failure issue, and
more importantly in terms of volunteering, the single point of pressure.
Once set-up it's largely just a case of maintenance, and with people being
involved we should be able to jump on a world cruise and be happy that we
won't be woken somewhere near the Equator with a problem - there's
redundancy forming already so I'll really emphasise that it won't be a
huge burden on anyone. None of us already discussing this want that for
ourselves and we don't want to push it on others either - we've got some
experience of spreading the load across teams to make lives easier and
it's basically a case of a little extra care and attention in planning
should make the whole thing run smoothly.
So anyone else want to raise their hands?
