stephen white wrote:
On 15/05/2008, at 6:54 AM, Brady Forrest wrote:
We will be doing this after all of the talks on the stage in the main
room.
see you at 4:45!
There can't be a "formal" photo of GeoWankers because I'm not in it! I
complained about this before, and I'm a half-breed Pom so I'm born to
be a whiner,
Dear Stephen,
Maybe you're getting too excited about this. It was only a conference
and this is only an e-mail list, albeit mostly collegial, with 1-2
exceptions :-)
The only reason this was 'formal' is because we took a casual snapshot
too quickly last year, for Brady, who was off somewhere hosting
everyone, unaware that there was going to be a photo at all.
Brady thoughtfully -scheduled- a picture this year so he could
rightfully be included in the document of a rare face to face gathering
of a few of our motley virtual community.
Mike
but I want to create a virtual world. I want to be able to have these
kinds of meetings as though it were real, and not a second life.
We still don't work as well together online as we do with meetings in
person. Until this difference is solved, other problems continue to
exist like the need to travel to work every day. I just don't see that
having meetings about how to have meetings actually helps with
meetings that aren't real meetings! How about we solve the problems
instead?
I would love to find a group of people working on solving the real
problems, but everyone's stuck on maps. Everyscape is the only one on
the right track. Real stuff, annotate it. Real data, represented on
top of real data. Why aren't you working on an Open Source version of
this?
Why are you wasting time like scientists working on things that turn
out not to be of much use? Make the effort and pick something more
significant! Wouldn't you rather be working on things that have
importance for hundreds of years to come?
The fact that I have to write emails like these, instead of being able
to find a group and start working with them, indicates the sheer
extent of the problem that needs solving.
Stop wanking and fix it!
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