Subject: Working with IFCSS, NCCA

From: [email-masked] (shengj)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 15:38:18 -0400 (EDT)

>[email-masked]  writes:
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>Hi, Dear Friends:
>	To  organize our group more efficiently, I have following 
>	suggestion and opinion:
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>The Current problems and our goal:
>	As some netter point out there are "too many questions , too 
>	few answers". I think this means our group lack of professional 
>	involving.  We need some help from outside of LAD.  How we get 
>	these help? How we can use all of the current resources effectively? 
>	How we can push NCCA,  IFCSS, INS help us and involve our problems, 
>	this probably is our present goal. Besides, we find ourselves lack 
>	of manpower, every person is busy and can not spend too much time 
>	consuming. 
>
>Some suggestions :
>
>1.      As some body point out, we probably need a committee. 
>	But I think a committee  should  consist of several coodinates.  
>	Every coordinate is only responsible for the relationship with 
>	a specific organization or specific  issue. The coordinate should 
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>	establish some regular communication with a organization , 
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>	such as Ifcss, NCCA.  Every two or three days,  he  reports our 
>	group's growing news, concern, suggestion to the organization, or to 
>	draft the letter to express our opinions. If they(IFCSS or NCCA) 
>	don't respond, a coordinate should doing some research, to know 
>	about this organization and to find out how to make them respond. 
>	if they respond, a coordinate should transfer their message to LADs. 
>	Believe or not, maintain a regular communication with IFCSS or NCCA 
>	is important, if we don't push them, don't  inform them enough 
>	information, don't have some kind of relationship with them, how we 
>	can expect their  big help.
>
>2.      Also,  I think we should establish a good relationship with
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>	CND-news editors. I remember last issue of CND-US had information 
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>        exchange package regarding LAD issue, if we can have CND publish 
>	this package regularly, or have them establish a LAD directory at 
>	CND.org ftp site, ( I think under this directory, should have 
>	several category similarly to currently our LAD editing category) 
>	we probably don't have to  maintain our own editing stuff and have 
>	these stuff members doing coordinate's job.
>	
>	The reason I want to suggest to make change is that I find  many 
>	questions in lad net are  so simple and repeatedly again and again, 
>	later maybe we just tell those person go cnd.org ftp site to find 
>	what he wants. For some very complicate individual case ( I assume 
>	there isn't many) , if  it posts  only at LAD net, I doubt whether 
>	they can get a satisfaction answer. But if it posts at CND news , 
>	their chance are more. I would suggest , If we have a organization  
>	of LAD, our goal is serve 95% of LAD, but not  100%. To reach the 
>	100%  of satisfaction always costs too much, some time even 
>	impossible.

    I agree with you totally.
    Right now LADnet is simply info-sharing links among CS who have LADs.
Unlike IFCSS, NCCA, it is not a organization. In the long run, we have to work
with existing CS organizations IFCSS, NCCA lobbying U.S. government on LAD
issue since it is very unlikely most LADs will get PR soon.
   
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>	Finally I would say the rule here  should be " One  serves for 
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>	every body, every body serve for one".
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     I remember I organized a donation within my department last year after
I saw Dr.Zhao's ads on World Journal. I got very positive response from 
fellow students. I strongly believe if we work as a group bonded by common
destination, we will succeed.

>					Yuan Gang

Jonathan J. Sheng
Theoretical Chemistry, NYU {\\{ (212)998-8439  [email-masked] }//}