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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 15:34, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 17:59, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> To help improve this I'm going to try to lead efforts to create a |
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>>> simple and effective periodic activity tracking checklist. |
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>> you mean like the Gentoo calendar ? |
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> While clearly sticking an entry in the calendar 7 years hence saying |
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> "renew trademark" is better than doing nothing, I'm not convinced that |
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> is the best solution. |
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that isnt the only periodic entry for the foundation. there's |
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paperwork filing, trustee meetings, etc... |
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> I see the calendar as being useful for reminders, but not a very good |
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> checklist of things that need to happen. Somebody might complete a |
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> task and forget to put a new entry on the calendar (far easier to do |
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> than deleting an entry from the tracking list). Maybe somebody puts |
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> an entry on the calendar, but not far enough in advance to take |
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> action, or maybe ownership is unclear so nobody does anything until |
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> the last minute. And so on... |
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i didnt mean to say that the calendar is be a full replacement. just |
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that all date related entries should be listed in the calendar. then |
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things like "i want an e-mail reminder" is now a trivial end user |
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issue and not something we need waste time on the infra side. |
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-mike |