How About Progress Reports? & Harry FP, Again

[abigailnus]

--- In HP4GU-FAQ at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> With all due respect, I don't think periodic reports from the FAQ
> subgroups will work.  This opinion is based on what has or has not
> worked in the past in terms of moving the group forward and getting
> things done.
> 
> During the time I led the FAQ group as a moderator (October 2002-March
> 2003), I prepared monthly progress reports.  I considered having
> others do this, but I decided that approach would not likely move the
> group forward.  One reason I believed this was that calling for status
> reports had been tried in the past, with a rather lackluster response.

Very well, I bow to your expertise on this subject.  However, I'm not sure the 
solution is, as you suggest,

> OK.  Let's not have a "leader," then.  Instead, we could have a
> "Taskmaster."  The Taskmaster role is something the 8-person Moderator
> Team used to keep us organized and moving forward.  One person (until
> I took over the FAQ list in October 2001, it was me) would post a
> weekly list of tasks in progress, including issue-spotting new matters
> and proposing solutions or declaring consensus on things.  

Frankly, I think this is a case of if it walks like a duck, but putting aside the 
question of whether or not we want a leader, I think we're in much worse 
trouble.  We can go ahead and select a leader or a taskmaster or a grand 
poobah, but it won't change the fact that at this point, Cindy, you and I are 
talking to each other.  Before we select a leader, we might want to make 
certain that we still have a group.

>>Further complicating things is that some of our members may have
 stepped up their involvement in HPfGU list administration, which may
 deplete their time available for the FAQ list. We have 38 members,
 but only 13 have signed up with a house at all, and of those, very few
 have posted anything substantive to this list recently concerning the
 writing of a FAQ.>>

I think this a chicken and egg situation.  You probably saw on the list that I 
recently joined up as a list elf, and one of the reasons that I chose to accept 
the task was the silence on this group, which had already been going on for 
two weeks.  It's true that many of the new elves are also members of FAQ, but 
our duties at this point are light, and I don't think that they preclude working 
on FPs.  

So, let me first give a shout-out to anyone who might be reading this message.  
Are you out there?  Did you even notice that the FAQ list went dark for a few 
hours earlier this week?  Are you still interested in writing FPs?  Just respond to 
this post with a Yes or No.  Please.

Abigail
Noting with horror the new color scheme.  Cindy, I assume we have you to 
thank for this?