On May 1, 2009, at 3:56 PM, geni wrote:
2009/5/1 Stu West stuwest@gmail.com:
- There are many things we could focus on: usability, quality,
outreach in countries without chapters, language issues, technology scalability, performance, data center expansion, access for those with limited/no connectivity, legal/trademark/copyright protections, etc.
- We can't do them all at the same time -- even with all our
success we have limited money and volunteer energy.
Everything you've listed we already are doing at the same time.
-- geni
Doing them? Sure. But doing them *well*, in an organized, structured, fully designed method? I'm not sure we are... we're doing some of them really well and we're doing some of them ad hoc, and we're doing some of them kind of half-assed; a strategic plan is a collective chance for us to step back, take a deep breath, and assess how to proceed forward. And, no doubt, the brainstorming sessions that will come out of this process will identify some areas that Stu didn't - some of that has already come out on this list. It would be a mistake to take Stu's examples and say "well, we're doing all those things already" without qualifying that with "but there are going to be other things come up, as well".
Philippe