2007/11/5, Sean Whitton <sean@silentflame.com>:

Hello all,

Firstly, this e-mail is not directives or commands or anything like
that, but I am throwing lots of ideas around in the hope that they
will bounce off some of you. I am thinking that due to a lack of other
issues the following could also be discussed exclusively at
Wednesday's meeting, so it would be good if as many of our members
could attend as possible for this reason as this is pretty important.

I think most of us will admit that right now ComProj is not doing a
lot. I think that there are a number of reasons for this, which I will
try to outline.
1) Lack of work
In general, we are not being given enough things to do. Those that we
do get end up being an individual thing between someone and a ComProj
member which is not ideal as it would be better to work more as a
group.
2) Lack of participation
We don't actually have that many active members right now. We could do
with recruiting more or we can't get done what we intend to.
3) Lack of motivation
I don't think people are interested in the projects we have. This
means nothing gets done. There is no expectation that members should
do things they are not interested in in this group (perhaps this is so
for the ComCom, but not ComProj which should be enjoyable in all
aspects)

So how do we solve this? I think that we need to make some fundamental
decisions, as a group, about how we want ComProj to work. Do we need
to formalise, bring in membership requirements (i.e. doing work, not
that people should be qualified to join initially), or do we need to
stop worrying about set projects and simply have a pool of people to
access via the mailing list.

Unsurprisingly, since I am chair and we are in this situation, I am
stumped. Ideas welcome.

Thanks,

Sean

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