Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:21:10 05/14/98
Hi all. The fast success that the “Peter List” about programmers has gotten until now show that, perhaps, this community has reached the critical mass of population and degree of engagement in his activities that awaken a collective desire to self-knowledge. We want to know how much we are, how we are, who we are, what we do apart of being chess computer freaks and, maybe, on that ground, in a near future to be capable of doing something more than to read and to post. Of this last intention it is an example the posts of some people talking of organizing our own rating list. Equally is an example of it the interest produced a week ago or so by my idea that members could write a short biography or account of themselves, thing that probably -as Steve has said- will be done after technical issues had been solved. For the time being, I propose a new list to know better who we are and that has the extra benefit to include the non-programmer people and/or programmers that has not programmed yet a chess program. My idea is just to, like Peter, to begin a list where people can put themselves under different categories of actual professional practice and/or studies being performed currently. If a good number of people gives this simple data about them, we can have a relatively accurate profile of the constitution of this community and get another step towards more and better services. The categories I propose -but of course more can be created any moment- are the following: -Computer Sciences -Electric engineering -Mathematics -Social sciences -Executive activities in companies -Language, Literature. -Accountancy -Physics -Commerce -Journalism -Teaching -Biology, Medicine -Professional Chess and whatever... As far as I know, Bob Hyatt, Vincent Diepeven and Stefan fall inside the category “Computer Sciences” as probably most of chess programmers, Ingo Althofer in “Maths”, Enrique in Literature -is a Phd in something related with that, sorry Enrique, I don’t remember well- and in the same category we have Steve, then I fall in Social sciences and journalism, Ulrich in Physic, etc. I think could be interesting to get this educational and professional profile. Please, add your names and categories inside which you fall... Fernando.
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