Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 00:13:57 11/08/97
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On November 07, 1997 at 21:52:46, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On November 06, 1997 at 15:35:41, Chris Whittington wrote: > >> >>On November 06, 1997 at 11:40:47, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >> >>>The facts that I know of read as follows: >>> >>> - Jaap stayed in a 3-star hotel and travelled by car because he took >>>many >>> boxes full of ICCA publications with him. Beside his duties as the >>>official >>> tournament director he lobbied around for new ICCA members and urged >>>old >>> ones to renew their membership on-site. Moreover, he sold a lot of >>> ICCA publications. As we need a tournament director in any case, I >>>do not >>> know what could be saved here ... >>> >>> - David and Tony were both heavily involved in organizing the whole >>>event. >>> As such they were responsible for many behind-the-scene details that >>>no >>> participant will ever be aware of. Personally, I do not object to >>>having >>> both principal organizers present on-site in order to make sure that >>> everything proceeds as planned. Please remember that the whole event >>>would >>> probably not have taken place without their prior organizational >>>efforts. >>> >>>Moreover, I believe in David's and Tony's personal integrity which makes >>>me >>>feel that they do not tend to waste precious ICCA money as Chris >>>alleges. >> >>I'm sure they have bundles of personal integrity. That's not at issue. >> >>Their personal integrity has nothing to do, for example, with the >>failure to get a modem up and running in time. >> >>This, for me, anyway, is a management issue. >> >>How much does good management cost ? Could it cost less ? Could it be >>performed better ? >> >>I still think three of them was overkill, and possibly too expensive, >>given that one came from another continent. >> >>I still think that the communication handling was inept. >> >>Some simple figures would suffice to settle the former. The latter seems >>self evident. >> >>And, please, can we talk about this without it being (a) personal and >>(b) interpreted as personal attack. If its any help to you guys I'm not >>trying to kill either the icca or the tournament, ok ? > >I certainly wouldn't have guessed it from the tone of some of your >earlier postings on this matter! Well, as long as you guys want to carry a load of ad hominem baggage around you'll be unable to debate this topic. Carry on with the old regime and its dinosaur ways, then. Have no modem next year. Keep the amateur / professional distinction. Drive away some programmers over $1000. Fine. > >Incidentally, why are the phone jacks different in France than in >Britain, Germany, Spain, etc. Can't you Europeans get it straight? ;-) Some of us can. $10,000 worth of professors can't. But you can't debate this issue, apparently. Chris Whittington > >Dave gomboc@cpsc.ucalgary.ca > >> >>Chris Whittington >> >>> >>>=Ernst=
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