Archives/2007-02-28
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Archived discussion |
This is an email discussion concerning participation of the subcommittee members. The discussion confirmed that all members were active. |
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Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) Hello, Before proceeding further, I'm wondering how many subcommittee members are still active and participating. Only three of the eight members have been active in discussion over the last few months. Please respond to confirm that you are receiving these messages and specify whether you are interested in maintenance of the process after policy development. Yours cordially, |
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GerardM <this user has not agreed to public archival.> |
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Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) Hello, I meant discussion with the subcommittee. If any of the other five members have been contributing outside policy development, I'm not aware of it; I joined the committee during policy development. My last email to Berto d'Sera bounced with an 'account terminated' error; do you know if he changed email address? Yours cordially, |
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Jon Harald Søby I'm still here, but I haven't been very active in matters, because I think what everyone else is doing is very good, and don't often have much to add, unfortunately. But I do follow the discussions & talks and stay updated. -- |
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Karen Broome <this user has not agreed to public archival.> |
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Sabine Cretella Jesse, this sometimes happesn with his normal account - now he also has a gmail account, but I don't remeber right now where I find it - I'll do this during the next days as soon as I am back home. Greetings from Pisa. Ciao, Sabine |
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Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) Hello, All subcommittee members have answered except Sabine Cretella, Ascander, and Timichal. Does anyone know if they have changed email address? I'll try to contact them on-wiki. Yours cordially, |
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Berto 'd Sera Hoi! Hmm... what's the call about, exactly? :) Sabine is likely to be busy (she's got lots of work lately) but maybe you'll find her on IRC, chances are Timichal should be there, too. Bèrto ‘d Sèra |
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Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) Hello, Sorry, Sabine Cretella has answered; we're just missing Ascander and Timichal. You did not receive the message because it was sent to your old email account; I updated some email addresses from the message you sent. The original message follows: "Before proceeding further, I'm wondering how many subcommittee members are still active and participating. Only three of the eight members have been active in discussion over the last few months. "Please respond to confirm that you are receiving these messages and specify whether you are interested in maintenance of the process after policy development." Yours cordially, |
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Berto 'd Sera Hi! Yes I'm active and interested :) My older accounts have a number of problems related to uktainian providers being blacklisted by many western providers. This one should be safe, since it's gmail :) I haven't heard from Timichal in a while, either. AFAIK Ascander hasn't been active since almost one year ago because of personal problems. Bèrto ‘d Sèra |
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Sabine Cretella There are people who work outside their home every now and then and: I answered to your e-mail telling you that Berto's e-mail sometimes did not work well, maybe you missed it. I just came home after a 12 hour drive, had some hours of sleep and now check my e-mail of the last days. And please remeber one thing: we are all volunteers, we are not paid to do a certain job in a certain time, but when we have time. Thanks for consideration. Sabine |
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Sabine Cretella Ah ok, you received the mail - ... like you can see: just reading my mail bit by bit ... Ascander is sometimes very busy and sometimes has time - so if he can, he will be there. Timichal: normally you can find him online on IRC, but also he has periods when he simply cannot be around. If I have IRC on I am normally always in our chat - so pinging me makes sense there (it could also happen that sometimes my computer is online and I am not there). If somebody is not active or does not respond: normally he/she agrees to what is said. At least that is how it was until we had hour last meeting. Now: having meetings and talk about thousands of things without not getting even a very old request on the way (at least a yes/no/we are working on it) does not make sense - I prefer to create facts instead of making hundreds of proposals. If one proposal does not go through, why should the others be worked out in hours of work time (that also have an economical value for freelancers like me) and then be put aside? I don't see a sense in this. As long as we do not have at least one decision based on what we proposed only talk does not take us anywhere. So I prefer to edit on free projects until there is some kind of feed-back. Sorry, I am tired, did sleep approx. 11 hours in three days and should care about things that are obviously not considered by who asked us to consider them? I know that this sounds harsh: but also my free time has a high value: I have two kids with 5 years of age and a husband - so when I work on these things it means not having time for them or not having time for work. I find it fun to work on language issues as long as it makes sense and we get results out of it. Ciao, Sabine |
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Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) Hello Sabine, Yes, I can understand the value you place on free time. Now that policy development is over, there will probably not be as much discussion. Most requests are fairly obvious; I or another member can propose a decision, and everyone else usually just needs to agree or not respond. This is can be done much more quickly if we can discuss on IRC, but it is possible through email as well. Yours cordially, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) |
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Ascander Hi, I've only been reading this list for the last months. However, I try to follow the discussions that are going on here. Ascánder |
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Timichal As I already told Pathoschild - my Internet connection is a bit unstable these weeks (should get better this month) - however, I try to read langcom-related discussions here, like Ascander. I'm definitely interested in further work of the committee and I hope I'll be able to be more active soon. Timichal |