Re: [ossig] MOSIG list kinda quiet

[Seah Hong Yee <hongyee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 11:47 am, Tze-Meng Tan wrote:
> Hi Molly
>
> perhaps I'm over reacting a bit but these are my concerns:
>

This is probably my fault for not articulate it more clearly. 

> 1. Thanks to Ammar we have a professional to review the document - this
> is what I meant by "formal review" - the thing is will she be willing
> to have it coming back with lots of little changes 4-5 times ....
> because of ....

That was what we decided, but because Ammar is going home anyway, it doesn't 
hurt to let her see it. 

>
> 2. Not enough people have seen the document and provided feedback -
> Thanks to the 5 of you who made the time/effort but the rest of us just
> couldn't make it. This is going to be an iterative process so lets at
> least make it asynchronous

> 3. My feeling is the 20 people who turned up at the first meeting
> cannot be considered a sufficiently large enough group - and one person
> who turned up could not attend - I don't care what he has done but if
> he is interested to participate, he should be able to. Just like a code
> review, the more people look at the document, the more feedback we will
> get and once the document has been through several rounds of review it
> should be ready to pass to a professional to look at...so we don't
> "abuse our resources"
>
> 4. July 17th is a way off, the document review by as many people as
> possible (isn't this the OSS way?) should start now, so major concerns
> may be highlighted and handled early - the document should at least be
> sent to everyone on the MOSIG mailing list and any new list members who
> sign up (if it were up to me I would post it to every OSS mailing list
> in Malaysia and on a web site for everyone to download - like an IETF
> RFC) . So even if people cannot make it to the meetings they can
> provide feedback through the mailing list - isn't that what the mailing
> list is for ? I can tell you right now, my workload in the next 2 weeks
> will prevent me from attending any meetings but I would like to
> participate in the creation of this document ... the only way for me to
> do this at this time is if I have a copy of the document - and I'll bet
> so will many other people
>
> 5. It looks to some people that this is a closed group limited to the
> 20 on the first day - that is probably the worst point - don't make
> turning up at the meeting the only way to participate in this
>
> On Jun 29, 2004, at 19:48, Molly Cheah wrote:
> > Tze Meng. It's our internal working. Can we have some freedom to do
> > this, including the number of meetings we will have before we submit
> > the document to the next meeting? During the next meeting, those
> > present may want to refer it to 3 other law professors plus posting it
> > on 10 mailing lists!
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe: send mail to ossig-request@mncc.com.my
> with "unsubscribe ossig" in the body of the message


---------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe: send mail to ossig-request@mncc.com.my
with "unsubscribe ossig" in the body of the message