SUO: Comment On Procedure
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SUO Working Group,
Whenever I perceive that my experiences and my opinions
are hopelessy out of sync with a community or a project
that I nevertheless care about seeing prosper, then my
usual strategy, once all the hue and cry of trying to
tell them what I see on the radar screen -- that is,
if I can still see the radar screen -- is just to
go about building a constructive alternative,
in the faint hope that its utilities will
someday be obvious. I have learned to
have no qualms about abandoning ship
or sub if that is what it takes to
live for the light of another day.
But I have not reached that point yet, so I will try
to tell you what I see on the horizon -- I am afraid
that it's mainly dark clouds, omninous rumbles heard
over the past few weeks presage that the SUO project
is on the brink of descending into the very bowel of
bureaucracy, never to see the lights of reason again,
and for all the shine of rationalization that may be
used to gloss over the fact -- and still I must keep
on hoping against hope that some among you will have
the presence of mind to recognize that an attempt to
build an ontology out of Robert's Rules is likely to
work about as well as trying to do astronomy via the
methods of religious inquisitions or cultural purges.
I will have some more specific comments to add to this later on,
but that is just about the gist of what I had to say about this.
Many Regards,
Jon Awbrey
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