Dear All, It's now Dec. 1. I consider the amount of work we have to do in terms of setting up hardware and writing policy (to mention two of the biggest hurdles). I doubt we could responsibly plan to finish this by the end of this month.
I also consider the fact that it's December, so many academics are very busy with final exams and papers, and then with the holidays. I remember that work dropped off on Nupedia and Wikipedia in Dec. 2000 and 2001, and we had poor luck doing recruitment then, and it's likely to be similar now. Since one of our main purposes with the launch and press release is to attract well-qualified (and not-so-well-qualified!) contributors, we would be better off doing this after the holidays are over. For these reasons, I think we should postpone the launch until early 2007. Hopefully January sometime. This means we should probably focus as much as we can on "mission critical" items in the next month. What are those? I'll outline them in later communication. --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
