Pitch for K16: The collaboration workspace technology based on the best community

Jos Poortvliet jospoortvliet at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 03:20:29 CET 2010


On Thursday 30 December 2010 01:04:14 Thomas Thym wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 December 2010 23:13:31 you wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 December 2010 15:13:20 Thomas Thym wrote:
> > > Dear K16 team
> > > 
> > > Here comes my pitch.
> > > I hope you know those books for children where you find many, many
> > > details on one page. You must invest a couple of minutes to get a good
> > > picture. It is the opposite of a
> > > you-see-at-one-glance-the-key-message-presentation style. As you
> > > allowed any kind of stuff, I went for that one. I am not an artist but
> > > I've done my very best to visualize my ideas. It was fun (I never did
> > > that before) and I hope you enjoy it, too.
> > > 
> > > And yes, I would like to participate at the meeting. :-)
> > > I could NOT participate at the following dates: 11.-12.02., 5.-6.03.,
> > > 26.03. and 1.04. The other dates look rather good.
> > > 
> > > The best wishes and a happy new year!
> > > Thomas
> > 
> > Thomas,
> 
> Hi Jos,
> 
> great to hear from you. I hope you enjoyed Christmas!
> 
> > Intriging vision. Quite a few things here are clear, others are not - I'd
> > love some elaboration in text form.
> 
> Thanks. Hm. I feared that.
> 
> > Moreover, I'd like to put forward another challenge: as you can see in
> > the dot article (the update) we'd also like to know HOW to get to the
> > point you describe. How to get community members on board? How to
> > motivate people to work on this? I see you put a strong focus on people,
> > but any concrete ideas there?
> 
> Hey man, you can't change the rules after the game has started!
> I just read the update again. That's a tough job. The vision and the plan
> to get there in two weeks and only 1 page. I like challenges. I am not
> sure if I could do that. I hope I could send you something until the
> deadline.

1 page is not needed for the whole thing - I'd much rather get 2-3 pages than 
one incomplete one :D

> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Jos
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