It looks like I'm in. Wow. Must have felt like this when I read my first
word, ESSO, at a gas station - that much to how TNCs are structuring our
world-view from the cradle.
For the beginning, I'd just like to ask one of the questions in my mails
more plain and simple: How are the structures, the hierarchies and the means
of the project? The editorial board, is that just Geert, Trebor and me? Or
is it that Geert and Trebor are primary responsible to organize the
conference, and there is a board in addition, which should encompass some
advisers (maybe yet to be found)? Who pays the conference, and - following
from that - to whom are you/we responsible? What has to be fulfilled, what
is free? Is the concept you both published and sent me the framework, or are
there additional conditions to bear in mind? Who will be responsible for
calculation and budget? Is there a calculation yet? And what non-financial
means are there: rooms an the SUNY? what kind of? means for communication?
staff for the conference itself? And, from your experience of former
conferences: how about the time-table? When has the preliminary program to
be finished, participants to be invited, advertisement for the conference to
be done, and how? At last, how are decisions done?
If I know more about this, I can get a clearer view of the project, of my
role in it, and so on. As you know, I'm not a believer in simple
"non-hierarchical" or "free" structures, because there are always rules,
responsibilities, structures of decisionmaking and so on - the question is,
which ones.
I'm going on vacation next Friday and I'll be back 15th of September, but I
guess I can use a NetCafe every now and then. Francis Hunger will be in
Bremen for the workshop I organize on 1st October, by the way, so I will
come to know him personally by then.
That much for now,
Christoph