RE: obsession with the check list
iris@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: obsession with the check list
  • From: &* B* <d*@sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:54:15 -0500
Eugene,
	I can tell you that the AIS brass is not ignoring these issues.
Unless I missed an email (and I know I am still waiting on one in particular
to come through), the Treasurer is trying to determine actual cost for
e-services.  Some folks feel the cost is pretty high and some folks feel it
is very low.  Until hard numbers come in from the Treasurer we don't
actually know, and we are working on personal opinions and suppositions.
Once a true cost is determined for the e-services we can then determine
which direction to go with them.  
	As for the bylaws and Bob's problem there, they were changed to
allow the e-memberships and if needed they could be amended again.  That is
not so much a constraint as a technicality.  
	Like many folks I use the Iris Register frequently and find it to be
much more user friendly than some of the alternatives.  I also buy the hard
copies and use them as well, mainly because the newer iris are in the hard
copies.
	I am happy to see concerned AIS members taking the time to let the
Board know what their concerns are.  I feel that listening to your audience
is of primary importance.  I know that many people don't speak out on these
forums.  Instead they choose to keep the peace or perhaps they email someone
they think might listen to what they have to say.  Many of the people I have
heard from about the e-memberships were all for it and voted accordingly, to
start with, but are now unhappy with the way it has played out.  Given the
amount of air time this issue has received I think it would behoove us to
rethink our plans on this or at least look further in to the actual costs
and goals.  All in all, I believe that this topic and others will be
revisited at the Fall Board meeting. 

Thanks,

Dana 

Dana D. Brown 
Malevil Iris Gardens & Kennels 
www.malevil-iris.com 
Lubbock, TX  79403 
Zone 7 USDA, Zone 10 Sunset 
ddbro@sbcglobal.net 



Robert,
There is no obsession here with the online check list or any other
facet of AIS. The online check list is a tool I use frequently in my iris
recording. And, according to you, you will take this away about the middle
of
next year and have all the data on WIKI.
 
If you want to look at
obsession, you should look in the mirrow. Your every article or conversation
or iris talk entry switches rapidly to WIKI, what it does now and what it
will
do tomorrow or next year or later on. The more complicated WIKI is made to
be,
the less it will be used even if it is "FREE". After 25 years working with
large computers the last ten of which was in a Techniques (Computer
Sotware) group on a couple of Control Data Corporation Computers. I know
that
computers have to be user friendly.
 
Now I am going to leave this thing alone
and see what the AIS brass does about some of this stuff. 
 
E. Baxley
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
the

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