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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> 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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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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As I see it, this list would become the go-to place if somebody (a |
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trustee or interested volunteer) wanted to see when our last tax |
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filing was, etc. |
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The whole goal here is KISS - a list of things that need to happen and |
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when they happened last and need to happen next. If all the future |
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dates are still in the future, then the foundation is essentially in |
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compliance, and if not it is not. |
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Rich |