Yes, actually - or at least, possibilities that need discussion. I have most of the names on that list that were in the spec documents themselves, and there are (I think) only one or two duplicates that I missed in that list. The challenge is going to be contacting the people in question, many of whom have undoubtedly moved on to other things. So I need comment on four points:
1. For individuals who were present as employees of companies, do they need to be contacted individually or will contacting the company itself suffice? 2. For individuals who were there as themselves and should be contacted individually, where do we get ahold of them? My only coherent thought beyond the obvious internet search is to make the archives of the freespec list private and invite people to subscribe and help reach people, but I don't know if it would be good to collect such information in one place - perhaps some of those folks wouldn't want their contact information so publicly displayed (even a private email list is visible to the members, and membership wouldn't be terribly restricted). On the other hand, we need some means of authenticating permission if given. What's the best way to proceed? 3. How do we handle companies that have since either vanished or become something altogether different? Sometimes even the company itself can be hard to locate and contact. 4. Who should contact people? I am an unknown and not likely to be taken seriously, particularly by company representatives. This project has fairly low interest levels based on prior responses in usenet and this list, so I don't really expect a high profile volunteer who will be the "CEO" of the project, but it would be nice. All we can do is try, but I would like the odds of success as high as may be. Discussion of any or all of these points would be very helpful. Thanks, Cliff --- Peter Seibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 1, 2006, at 9:12 AM, C Y wrote: > > > Unfortuantely I have not had time to make much headway with this, > so > > right now all is quiet. > > Is there anything any of the rest of us could do to help things > along? > > -Peter > > -- > Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ > Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > __________________________________________________ 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
