Firstly, I apologise for the neglect this whole process has suffered on my part. It certainly doesn't cover the whole length of the delay- so I accept some genuine fault for that- but I have, ironically, also suffered some personal problems over the last months. I won't expand upon that in 'public', except to say, that, I've had some health concerns. I'm good now though and rearing to kick this mother on some!
I've been in contact with Tom over the last week, expressing ideas and thoughts on the structure of the committee and what not- owe alot to Duggeh's projections here!- and I am awaiting a response from him (it was a lengthy and comprehensive PM!).
Once we have qualified things between ourselves some, and have a more concrete idea of the framework for the organisational body and the anticipated necessary responsibilities and organisational processes, we'll then share that with the members we've already contacted, in private, who have expressed a continued interest in partaking and assuming an active role in this working organisational group, see what they think, finalise and push on to appointing members to roles within this governing body.
I'll also contact/PM members who have expressed a willingness to be involved in the organisational process, more recently, in this thread and see if and how and where and in what capacity they would like to be involved, ie, what role they would nominate themselves interested in and/or well suited to. [N.B.// This will be after myself and Tom and (and Duggeh. possibly), and decided between a more solid outline for the structure of this committee and it's functionality- both roles, individually, and combined into the full, inter-communicative, team-working beast- which we will then project to prospective committe members]
Note: As alluded to above, we will be first contacting Duggeh (influencial in his response to our PM, inquiring as to his interest in undertaking an active role in the society committe and organisational process) to get further input and feedback from him, hopefully (despite his recent ruling of himself out of any part in this due to study commitments).
As logically expressed by others alrady, we'll try and get in a real-time IRC channel of communication to speed things up and 'galvanise' everything, also (maybe taking Currawong up on his offer as medium for such direct communique, though phones/mobiles seems satisfactory, I'd imagine).
I'm behind this now and will try my best to push this phase through quickly, now, and get the committe formed and up and functioning within the next few weeks (though some things are out of my control, obviously, such as proactiveness of others to respond to PM's etc).
Kind Regards,
Steve
