Appropriate use of this group?

[Luke]

I have a question regarding appropriate use of this group.

Varian is a "service consumer" and from time to time we have work that
we'd like to get done externally. I find it quite difficult at times
to find particular "service providers".

I suggested that the wiki this group has allow organisations to put up
information about themselves and it becomes a good place for service
consumers/providers to interact to build those relationships. That
hasn't happened yet.

So, given that doesn't exist, is this an appropriate forum for me to
say "We want to get <blah, blah> work done, who is capable and/or
interested in doing it for us".

Cheers,

Luke Visser

[Mark Mansour]

At the moment I wouldn't like to see that happen. Instead I'd like
this to be one of the benefits of being an Agile Alliance Australia
member.

Does anyone else have thoughts on this?

Mark

[Mark Henery]

Maybe this could be a good opportunity to get this sort of idea up and
running while the A3 is in its infancy. If it can be at least started
now it may be in a good position once membership kicks in.

[Luke]

Mark,

I agree and while I'd like to put the request up I'd also like to push
along the A3 organisation so that I can put this up as a member

However, there doesn't seem to be much response to what I suggested
and that may be an indication to the future lack of response to asking
for service providers that can do what I'm looking for but hopefully
not.

Is there a time schedule that is being looked at for getting a
membership organised for A3?

Luke

On Feb 18, 7:28 pm, Mark Mansour <m...@agilebench.com> wrote:

[Mark Mansour]

I'm giving a reasonable amount of time for the Board members to post a reply to this post http://groups.google.com/group/agile-alliance-australia-board/browse_thread/thread/d5a641077513f483

Three of the five board members have responded and I think waiting until Friday is fair.

Mark

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[Richard Durnall]

Hey Mark,

Was that intended to be a link to your blog post?

Rich

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[Mark Mansour]

Hey Rich,

I want to corral the thoughts of the A3 board members, which the link to the google group was pointing to.  I basically asked the question - should the A3 board disband or can we, as board members, put more effort and time in.  Everyone has replied with the exception of Mike.

With this, I have to conclude that the A3 board is not functioning as we'd like and that a change is needed.  I believe we should all give up our positions on the board and new board members should be found if there is a will to have a national body.  Maybe for this year a national body should wait until the city based chapters gain some momentum and then use that momentum to setup something bigger.  I want to wait until the end of the week for Mike to reply and then next week setup a new thread working out how to hand over to other, more time rich (and motivated) people.

Mark

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[Richard Durnall]

Hey Mark

That all makes sense. Thanks for driving this...

Rich

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Principal Consultant || ThoughtWorks Australia
Level 14, 303 Collins Street,
Melbourne, Vic, Australia 3000.
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