[Lopsa-regional-project] tasks

[John Rowan Littell]

On Feb 6, 2006, at 03:14, der.hans wrote:

> Am 05. Feb, 2006 schwätzte Adam S. Moskowitz so:
>
>> [Cc'd to the LOPSA Board]
>>
>> On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 02:12:21 -0700 (MST) der.hans asked:
>>> What do the groups who would be receiving the info packets want?
>>
>> The same thing I've wanted from SAGE for years: A compelling list of
>> reasons for someone to join LOPSA. This is really a general LOPSA
>> problem, not specific to the regionals project, but without it I'm
>> reluctant to waste any of my group's time talking about LOPSA.
[snip regional-specific stuff]

If I know Adam's previous views at all (and he's more than welcome to 
correct me on them), I think he was trying to get at a slightly 
different thing here.  All of the items you listed were potential 
reasons why a regional group might want to affiliate, at some level 
with LOPSA.  I think Adam was more concerned with what he, as someone 
presenting LOPSA to individual people, might tell those *individuals* 
as reasons they would want to join LOPSA.  Which is to say: for example 
that the SAGE short topics booklets were a good individual member perk, 
but something different from mailing list hosting, which would be a 
good regional group perk.

This does verge slightly on going off topic for the regional project 
list, but I do think it bears consideration, if only in the sense that 
the discussion is concerning how we can, as representatives of LOPSA in 
some fashion, present to groups of people the reasons why those groups' 
members (individuals) want to join LOPSA.

   --rowan