Friends,
David is right. The announcement was clear: post to my email direct, not to the list.
The number of notes to the list is puzzling -- I've made resources available before, and people have never before posted to the list this way. That said, I've had something like two hundred off-list requests, so I suspect that people simply followed suit when one person wrote to the list.
For better or worse, I have had a reason in the past for not setting up a server. In the past, I have used the responses to track interest in different issues and to gather responses. I have often made pedagogical materials for research training available as I get them ready for different purposes. People seem to find them useful. I am looking into developing a web site with a mechanism for downloads and I hope to have it up and working by the end of the year as part of the web site at Swinburne Design. Once I have a system set up with a server, it will be easy to click on a link and download the material.
At the same time, I'd say that a great virtue of PhD-design is the fact that it is a common meeting place for resources, research requests, and CFPs as well as for discussions. In the future, I'll be sure to emphasize *off-list* queries or responses, as I did with the packaging request. Got a dozen or so good responses to that, for which I am grateful.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS
Professor
Dean
Swinburne Design
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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Folks,
Before we all get inundated with these requests, can you please ensure that you respond to Ken Friedman and not to the list?
Ken, do have a reason for taking requests like this - why not in future just put these PDFs on a server for anyone to download... easier for all of us.
David
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