hey, remember the platform?

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 01 July 2005 02:49, Daniel Stone wrote:
> You seem to be assuming that fd.o is actually a coherent, defined
> organisation.  Which it isn't.

this is a cop out and not particularly useful.

FD.o has a website and a public identity (brand, if you will). it has 
documents and software associated with it, it has hardware resources, it has 
processes for some basic items, etc, etc.. 

whether there is a defined organization of people or not, there is certainly a 
defined entity here.

> What the platform really needs is for people to say 'I am <special
> interest group>, and what would really be useful to me is <stuff>.
> <some list> is what I would see useful in a platform, and <other stuff>
> is what I would see as counter-productive.  Please feel free to run
> ideas by me.' 

i agree. where i seem to diverge from most others here is that i don't believe 
these people are going to magically appear. i think there needs to be some 
leadership excercised to reach out and help find these people and show them 
the path here. once here, i think things can go well. but i do not see these 
people appearing magically of their own accord to be realistic.

i say this because it hasn't happened yet.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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