On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:24 AM, David Gerard wrote:
As I said, I think most of the problems are emergent behaviour of a large volunteer organisation.
Are there relevant antecedents to what we're doing here? The OED ran (and runs) on volunteer contributions, but doesn't have an emergent bureaucracy of volunteers.
We are breaking new ground. There has never been a project like this before of similar size, reach and principles.
As they say: "we are on our own, baby". And we better accept that as a fact, if we want to move forward and not stall, that is.
-- Jossi