pennsicdance: Planning Dance at Pennsic

[Matthew Fleming]

Andrei wrote:
> I think that it is sufficiently early enough that we can talk more
> about the issues then officially declaring candidacy. The lists so
> far have proven that there are many issues to confront and many
> different sides.

Juliana wrote:
> I think that at this point it is more important to discuss what we
> want to do with dance than to simply have elections.  There are a
> whole lot of big issues that need to be addressed, and many people
> obviously feel strongly about them (given the amount of mail that's
> already been generated).

I agree that there are many issues to be discussed; however, the
previous pattern from messages on SCA-Dance and past years discussion
is that the community never reaches a consensus.  This is fine; I
don't expect everyone to agree on everything.  But at some point, some
policy decisions need to be made.  And while many of these decisions
don't need to be made for a while, there are already some things for a
dance coordinator to do.

Several people have already volunteered to do various things; without
someone to start making a schedule, etc., these volunteers may be
forgotten or whatnot.  I don't believe that once we have a dance
coordinator s/he will immediately lay down policy, but I do think s/he
can initiate discussion, see what predominant viewpoints are, and
*then* lay down a policy, with possibly some fine tuning.

The discussions here (or rather SCA-Dance, since not much has come by
pennsicdance yet) tend to not get to a conclusion.  And that's why I
think we need a dance coordinator sooner rather than later, to make a
conclusion from the discussions.

Cheers,
Matt
-- 
Matthew D. Fleming                   http://www.cs.cornell.edu/fleming
Dancer, gamer, Macintosh and Linux fan.         fleming at cs.cornell.edu

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