Dear Keith,
Cheers to you and cheers to David for your service as list owners. You moved us toward this moment. It was a small start, with people from the Ohio conference constituting the first list membership. It's a large community today.
As one of those present in Ohio, I recall that more people were enthusiastic than skeptical, at least among those who took part in the first conversation. It is fair to say that enthusiasm won. Building durable communities takes time and continued investment. Your work and David's over the past 18 years anchors the participation of what has become a large and stable community.
M P Ranjan once gave a talk in Wales in which he pointed to the PhD-Design list as a vital forum for design research and one of the forces moving us forward as a research community. It's clear that 3,000 of us agree.
It a pleasure to join you in this toast. Skaal!
Ken
On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:37:09 +0000, Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I just noticed that the list is 3000 strong. I�m not sure when this
>clicked over but it was a moment of fun to see it tonight.
>
>Those of us who were there in Ohio, October, 1998, when the idea for the
>list was first raised, can recall that some people were less than
>enthusiastic.
>Thanks to David Durling as co-founder, we were able to call on the
>wonderful email group resources of the UK academic world.
>Without this home, we would be at the mercy of the vagaries.
>
>I raise my glass to one and all.
>
>keith
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