Re: Process calls, and the way we work, and (no) meeting this week

On 12/19/2018 11:22 AM, Léonie Watson wrote:
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> On 18/12/2018 21:48, David Singer wrote:
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>>> On Dec 18, 2018, at 6:13 , Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk> wrote:
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>>>> I agree, the focus on interesting and significant issues problem 
>>>> remains. But that’s almost the nature of standards work, as Chaals 
>>>> points out — people work on what they are motivated to work on. 
>>>> It’s hard to change that. We can’t *tell* people to do anything.
>>>
>>> True. Is there any way to give the priority issues more oxygen in/on 
>>> calls than non-priority issues perhaps?
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>> They are always the first things on the agenda; and sometimes we note 
>> that no progress has been made, and move on…
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>> we make sure that someone is assigned to them; we ask what the next 
>> steps are; what else can be done?
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> Probably not much else. I take it there were no constructive 
> suggestions from the critics?

Well I did suggest assigning each priority task to a volunteer that 
feels passionate about driving it.  Then they can form a team of 
interested parties to develop their task.


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>> David Singer
>> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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Received on Wednesday, 19 December 2018 16:48:37 UTC