--- In IBDI@y..., Damian Dowling <it-manager@p...> wrote:
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> >
> >Nick Josipovic
> >Corporate Market Intelligence

LOL

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> When i offered to create and maintain the site it was on the
> understanding that the objectives of the site could be settled on
> - I now regret that i every sent the email.

You didn't produce anything useful, Damian.

In this community seems to be a tradition to give credit for effort,
rather than for results. I also value efforts, but prefer those with
an acceptable result.

>
> It started as an end user website discussion and has turned into
> a "Whose the king of the castle", it started so well what a pity
> it ended up as it is.

I don't think so. I always said control belongs to Firebird active
members. In my suggestion for website organization I kept Pavel in
the "coordinating webmaster" position. I don't claim anything for
myself.

> It does show however who the professionals are.

Does it? So who are they?

> I think Nick you have the right idea - stay lurking, it saves a lot
> of time for people who don't have time to waste.
>

Not very complicated an idea.

>
> Damian Dowling
> IT Manager
> Pallas Foods Ltd

And Helen, about the Firebird list on Yahoo! Groups:

There was a remark a few days earlier in this IBDI list, where
already someone suggested to move the website discussion to another
list. Your reply was, that you would keep it here, since there isn't
another apropriate list at the moment and the IBDI list was used for
general discussion which doesn't fit anywhere else.

This means, that there was, up to present, no list for general,
public discussion about Firebird. The new Firebird list introduces
such a forum and so I think it's useful for Firebird.

Your statement that Firebird is at SourceForge makes no sense:
Firebird is the entire community organized around the Firebird source
tree at SourceForge. But it's more than just a development
department. Firebird is the name of the product and hence the name of
the community behind this product as a whole. Coherence!

Therefore it doesn't matter where Firebird members meet. The only
thing that matters is, that they do it under the Firebird flag.
Yahoo! Groups is a very handy instrument and there is absolutely no
reason why Firebird should not have its public discussion list on
Yahoo! Groups.


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