Poetry FW

Aug 11 07:11 UTC 1997

The poetry conference has reached item 1002.
I am resigning as fair witness as soon as
we get a new fw (I'm restarting it before
I hand over my magic wand). I don't know
if anyone really cae, but my recommendations
for the next fw of the people in there
regularly are toking and arianna. I would
also recommend craig and rlawson, but they
seem to be around even LESS often than me.
anyway, I would linke this to poetry, but
I think I forgot how.
--jenna

response 2 of 28:

Aug 11 09:50 UTC 1997

Yes, that will work.

For internal conference business like fairwitness changes and
restarts, there's no need for a coop item. Conference
participants can just discuss it in the conference; then you can
request any changes in mail to cfadm.

Speaking as an occasional poetry conference participant, I'll
say that I think you've done a wonderful job and I'm sorry to
see you go. How many conferences can boast over 1000 items?
Regarding the restart, I suggest keeping the old version around 
for a while as "oldpoetry" to give people a chance to save stuff.

response 4 of 28:

Aug 11 15:27 UTC 1997

I agree with Richard on that one - I think we can keep it around permanently.

response 6 of 28:

Aug 11 21:15 UTC 1997

actually, i would love if if someone could figure otu a quick way to ge6t it
on
a disk for me (or just onto my harddrive) I tried once
via some wacky command rob henderson gave me, but it didn't work.
(i mean as a text file, btw)
I wasn't quite sure what the proceedurewas for
getting a new fw and resigning,
so I posted here, so nyah. not like this place is quite so buisy as 
it once was.
How about I post another item in poetry and don't link em,
so you coopers don't have to read this nonsense anymore...
(unles someone would like to speculate about old poetry
and jpw tp tramsfer a wjhole conference onto a pc)

response 8 of 28:

Aug 13 14:12 UTC 1997

so... how *does* one get elected to fwship?  does jenna just hold the vote
in poetry cf?

response 10 of 28:

Aug 13 19:56 UTC 1997

I was under the impression that the current fw(s) of any conf could pick 
their replacements.  This goes back to the question everyone has a 
different answer for, which is "do fw's *own* their confs?" 

But if an FW picks a replacement FW who nobody in the conf likes, and 
the conferees complain to cfadmin, what does cfadmin do?  I dont think 
there is anything spelled out about what exactly the rules of fw 
succession are...maybe there should be? 

response 12 of 28:

Aug 13 22:27 UTC 1997

If it is a matter of th epoetry conf users picking, how should it be gone 
about?

Maybe an item about it, and after "X" number of days counting the vote?

Would it be possible to use the vote program for an application like this?

response 14 of 28:

Aug 15 05:53 UTC 1997

joe... there;s an item in poetry for this right now.
i'm just hoping someon actually responds to it,
because I couldn't pick between you and erinn

response 16 of 28:

Aug 16 05:30 UTC 1997

true... but i was kinda hing someone else gave a damn ;<
you go one and on about democracy, richard, but nobdoy
but the fw uisually cares who the next fw is.

response 18 of 28:

Aug 17 03:27 UTC 1997

well not EXACTLY, richard. poetry needs to be put into oldp[oetry
(cfadm???) poossibly with the last 8 items chopped off. (they're causig
the problems) And the New fw's... (Toking and Arianna) need to
start an item #1 lonce that's done.

response 20 of 28:

Aug 17 13:38 UTC 1997

I've added arianna and toking as FWs, and restarted the poetry conference.

response 22 of 28:

Aug 21 05:23 UTC 1997

*blinks* that as out of context, stephen...
arianna will be tickled when she finds out
she may be moving into her dorm this week, you know

response 24 of 28:

Aug 21 19:53 UTC 1997

I have a list of the fw commands.  I can mail it to you if you want.