Hello, as the initial founder of the BizDev project, I first would like to express my gratitude to the bizdev volunteers and the actual project leads. I would like to state clearly the reasons that led me to resign from the BizDev leadership a while ago: -lack of time (as I was starting a new business) -conflict of interest, because of this new business, Ars Aperta.
That said, I acknowledge that the BizDev project has so far failed to take off, and I'm sorry for this, as this is partly my fault. The reasons are many, but I can see some of them: lack of strong agenda, difficulty to bring service providers, companies and support businesses online, lack of webtools (could be solved with the wiki now), and -no pun intended to leads of the project- lack of time from its leaders. I know what I'm talking about here, I have been in there before :-) . Also, the bizdev is an incubator project, rather far from the central projects and lacking of pluck and influence. However, I don't think that merging this project back into the Marketing project would be a solution. In fact it would even diminish its already small visibility, and drown it entirely behind the noise generated on the central marketing list. I would be very much in favor of giving this project a second chance; merging it inside the MP would ruin what it was thought for at the beginning: providing the quiet and comfortable atmosphere for businesses to interact between each other. Today, the only value that has been achieved inside the bizdev is the Consultants'File: moving this to a wiki is certainly a good idea. For the rest of the intended goals, a true discussion needs to happen to see if the bizdev should expand and restart, or if it should basically center only around the Consultants'Directory. Hope this helps, Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
