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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: To UNIX or not to UNIX ;-). Was: PPP problems. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:06:22 +0930."
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 04:11:20 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I _really_ need to talk about how make the "funding" concept work.  In
> particular, I need to sort out whether it's feasible to take people
> like Adrian here and sub-contract him to do some of the work.  

Sure.  Once we figure out the rough costs and I have an actual budget
arranged, how it's spent is really a very open-ended affair.

> Is this viable?  As the VC instigator, do you have any specific
> expectations about how the venture should be organised?

I would expect a team leader to be elected (or one to push himself
forward and declare himself as such :-) and some initial goals agreed
to, said leader then breaking the task into more manageable chunks and
either taking them himself or subcontracting other bits out.  Who does
the work isn't so important as making sure we know what work really
needs to be done and that someone is signed up for it who won't just
flake out later.

To put it another way, I think certain projects have gone as far as
they can on purely volunteer labor and now we need to decide how to
take them on more seriously.  I made that decision about the web pages
fairly recently and hired a web designer to reorganize them.  Once the
decision was made to spend some money, it took less than 5 weeks total
to come up with some tanglible results, and I think that they speak
for themselves.

					Jordan