[OT: Heather: It's time for a Forum. (And an answer!)]

[Dennis Brown]

Dan,

I know what you mean.  I have run several small companies in my life,  
and staying focused on the highest priorities is always a challenge.   
I have also managed technical groups in very large companies.  Guess  
what?  Unless the company is VERY well run, it is even harder.  It  
takes 2-4 times as many people to get the same job done because you  
can't stick to your priorities when the big bosses keep changing your  
mind for you.

Right now, I am almost in tears because of all the great things I  
would like to do in many different creative areas of my life, but  
there is only one of me :-(

I suspect that many of the people on this list are in this same boat  
(being the creative/inventive sort).  That may be why it is so  
difficult to get enough critical mass together to get some of these  
documentation/forum type projects off the ground.  So many good  
ideas, but only enough resources to do one of them --which one to  
support?...

Undisputed leadership is required to rally the critical mass.

If RunRev would lead in a direction (that we like), most will support  
that as the priority project.

In the mean time we vacillate waiting for someone to lead by making a  
big personal investment in something that is given away for free.  Of  
course there is no guarantee that the needed critical mass of  
followers will agree with the direction.  Then the effort is  
disappointingly wasted...

Now if there was the possibility of a big personal gain, that might  
make it worth taking a chance on --but where is the gain?  Perhaps it  
is in there somewhere for someone.

RunRev has something to gain, but then again, they could reap almost  
all the benefits even if someone else got it started.  Maybe that is  
what they are waiting for...

FWIW

Dennis


On Dec 15, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> I hope they do. THis is not the first time this has been promised,  
> but I
> know how that goes at a small company where priority-juggling is an  
> Olympic
> sport.
>