CC: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>, dynamicuno@gmail.com
The only thing I changed in the first couple of paragraphs
is that I modified Id to Wed, since moving forward we should be representing
ourselves as an entity rather than as an individual, but thats just my
opinion.
With regards to the third paragraph, Im an asshole and a word
Nazi so I tried making the sentence as concise as possible. The same applies to
original questions 2, 3, and 4.
For the first original question (expertise and interests), I thought it would be
helpful to separate the question into two parts, with the idea that this will
extract a greater amount of useful information, making our jobs easier.
I added two new questions based
on feedback by Ed. G, which is to say that he will only work with a certain
programming language, so I thought it useful to include new questions 4 &
5 as prerequisites.
Hello,
Thanks for
expressing interest in Project PM.
Wed like to
collect basic information about your skills, background, and interests so that
we can help you get integrated. Note that this information will be stored in a
spreadsheet which will be accessible to other members of Project PM (including
each of you). Although that is a relatively small set of people, if that
concerns any of you, we are happy to make arrangements to store your
information more privately.
Please answer the
following questions at your earlier convenience, and get it back to us so we
can coordinate the upcoming phases of growth.
1) What are
your primary areas of expertise?
2) What are
you main interests?
3) Do you
have any unique, relevant skills?
4) Do you
have any preferences? i.e. working in alone versus in a large group
5) Do you
have any requirements? i.e. only working in a particular language
6) Do you
have any specific questions?
7) Do you
have any specific suggestions?
8) Bonus question - whats your ultimate vision
for human society?
I think it's an excellent idea to ask everybody what their skills and interests are and put the info in a database. I don't think it is a good idea to share the information with everyone on the spreadsheet; here's why:
Since Project PM has no political, religious or limited-issue affiliation or orientation, people may tend to impute the affiliations or orientations of the members to us. We have some people in our spreadsheet who are embroiled in controversies we are not interested in, however compelling those issues may be. That was the ultimate reason for ditching the Workshop PM; it appeared possible that we could get sucked into internet wars based on some of the names (including pseudonyms) we incautiously shared.
Hey, aady made response for people who express interest. This way they tell us what we need right off, and they know right off that we'll slot them in as we open up a need for their skills.
