Enno, I feel there is some misunderstanding. The present organisers of FHISO won't play any larger role in determining what standards FHISO writes than any other FHISO member. I should also point out that the present organizers won't be FHISO's governing body. Andy Hatchett Acting Secretary Family History Information Standards Organisation www.fhiso.org One community, one standard -----Original Message----- From: Enno Borgsteede <ennoborg@gmail.com> To: gencmp <gencmp@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 10:25 am Subject: Re: Whither GEDCOM? Hi Tony, > Thanks for posting this Enno because you're very wrong here. FHISO standards > are developed collaboratively. There is no such thing as "my model". Neither > I, nor any other individual, is developing a standard that all others are > expected to use. > > All members are invited to list requirements, recommendations, and even > proposals for design elements. If you're not there then how can FHISO > accommodate your own personal requirements? I'm not there, because I know that the governing body of the FHISO consists of people who spent most of their time rejecting other peoples ideas on better gedcom, like the idea of personas. When you want standards, you need people who are open minded, i.e. that they accept that someone wants to use a technique that they personally reject as a waste of time. FHISO is not like that. Look: I personally think that putting templates from evidence explained into genealogy is a waste of time. Programs that implement it scare me away, but I know that if enough people support it, it will be part of the standard, so I will have to accept that it's there. In better gedcom, I saw that people rejected a simple model like DeadEnds, saying that they saw no need to collect data, and that nominal record linking was a silly idea. And at the same time, they spent a lot of time advocating things that I think are silly too. My point is, if you believe in cooperation, you can't reject things that way. You will have to accept that there are parts in the model or standard that you will probably never use yourself. If you can't, as some members of the FHISO have proven on the better gedcom wiki, and on stack exchange, you don't belong in a standards organisation. And as long as these people are there, I won't join. cheers, Enno ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENCMP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message