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ADMIN: Taking TECHWR-L futures offline & additional info
Subject:ADMIN: Taking TECHWR-L futures offline & additional info From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 09 Aug 2004 05:46:45 -0600
All,
It's probably time to take the TECHWR-L futures discussions offline.
It's been an interesting set of discussions, but I think they're now not
generating much in terms of new content. That said, please continue
discussions with me offline, or feel free to post directly if you have
something _new_ to contribute. (Steve Hudson's posts are both
certainly in the "something new" category, and do a marvelous job
of outlining a possible future state.)
Just to clarify a bit of a misconception: The problem is not bandwidth
(in the Internet sense), servers, hosting, or computing power. Those
are problems that we have solved, that can remain solved exactly as
they are, and require little thought or effort to manage here or
elsewhere. (Does that mean that Deb and Eric, through Raycomm, could
continue to keep the servers going? Certainly that's an option.)
The problem is responsibility, bandwidth in the time-available sense,
and accountability. The quest here is to find an entity to take
responsibility for the resources.
(As a parenthetical, I'd note that the challenges that some have
described with STC are endemic to volunteer organizations, and are
precisely the reason we are not seeking "a volunteer" to run TECHWR-L,
Certainly there are lots of good volunteers out there, and they provide
a tremendous value to STC and other organizations. However, from a
management POV, finding and retaining good volunteers while not wasting
time with the less responsible volunteers is tremendously difficult.
Moving TECHWR-L to management of a collection of volunteers would change
the problem that Deb and I face from a problem of technical
communication/Web content development to a problem of management, which
doesn't change the underlying logistics at all.)
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