--- Peter Seibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Brad Beveridge wrote: > > > It's looking good IMHO. Unfortunately, since this project > > is a bit unusual, I don't know if it is bless-able or > > not :) I suspect it is. > > I suspect so to. In fact as long as Clifford is gung ho to do > the work, I don't think this project needs a lot of > volunteers to be blessable. (Okay, we need a better word than > that.)
The main reasons I thought cl-garnders would be the logical place for this were: 1. It's a public forum, so if it runs out of steam at some point the work done up to any given point is not lost, and can be resumed at the previous pause point. 2. With all the lispers on here, we may be able to track down people who otherwise couldn't be located. 3. If it gets "approved" as a cl-gardners project, it has more weight behind the requests than one obscure lisp newbie who is unknown to ANY of the players ;-). With any luck that will increase its chances of success. > Clifford, once you've got as complete a list of potential > copyright holders as you can put together you should probably > ask the whole gardener community to take a look at the list That was the plan. That will be a fair bit of work, unfortunately, but I have already started and will try to get it completed over the next couple of weeks. > and see if anybody has any contacts or contacts of contacts > or whatever to get to any of those people/companies as that > seems perhaps the most valuable contribution the average > gardener could make. Pretty much. This is actually, at this stage, a fairly straightforward proposition - liberate the sucker. It's the logistics of making all the contacts (and praying people don't just ignore us) that make it tricky :-) > It's probably better, in fact, to have one person doing most > of the actual contacting, even if through an introduction or > whatever, just so we make sure the communication is all > consistent. Agreed. Actually, it might be better if the name on the communication is someone with more "weight" in the Lisp community, as they would probably command more attention - I'm afraid I myself might get dismissed as just another random email :-/. Once I've got the table set up and a suitable letter composed it's just a question of pressing send and crossing one's fingers, really, so perhaps there is a more appropriate name than mine to put as the main figure in this effort. Of course, by the same token, since I arrived recently on the scene and was not involved with Lisp at all while the ANSI process was underway I have no "baggage" from what I understand was quite an involved process - I have no agenda except the betterment of the lisp community. I don't know if that's of importance or not. > The one thing I think I'd like to see, if this is going to > be done under the auspices of the CL Gardeners is a copy of > the letter you're sending out. I expected that. I have yet to write it, but I think the back of my brain is already at work on it :-). > I can't really think of anything that we shouldn't be > open and upfront about what the letter says, so it might > as well go on the project page or maybe on a page of its > own linked from the project page. If you have specific > concerns, Clifford, maybe you can send me a copy of the > letter and tell me what you're worried about. No specific concerns, except people making fun of my writing style ;-). I'll post a draft once I've got something halfway reasonable. Cheers, CY __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
