Fil,
I almost replied "Get a life." If this is the way you approached them, I understand their terse dismissal.
They wanted people with certain professional perspectives to comment on some things. Maybe you would have been happier if it had been a different set of things. Clearly you would have been happier if it had been a different set of professional perspectives. They didn't set out to insult you; they didn't know you existed. But they have no reason to care whether you are happy. The world is full of people who don't care and shouldn't care what you or I think. Get over it.
> The fact is that the Workshopped asks for people to choose the "best"
> artifacts. Many of them (all of them in my opinion) require the application
> of engineering as well as other domains of knowledge to be labelled "best"
> in any meaningful way.
Yup. "[I]n my opinion." Notice that they do not share your opinion. Meaningful to whom? Oh. Yeah. To you. Notice that they have no reason to care what's meaningful to you. If you want to talk to people who share your opinion, it would make sense to go somewhere else because they are not such people.
> To exclude engineering from the list of sources of
> input in which they are interested is just incorrect.
The list of sources of input in which they are interested is, tautologically enough, a list of the sources that interest them. (Note "them.") They made such a list. Since they are the only source of information about what interests them, arbitrarily adding to the list is, to use a phrase "just incorrect."
You want them to want something they don't want. You cannot make that change by insisting that they accept your values. Sorry. That just doesn't work.
Gunnar
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> On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:52 AM, Filippo Salustri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Gunnar,
> Why are you moving the goalposts by changing the context entirely?
> The fact is that the Workshopped asks for people to choose the "best"
> artifacts. Many of them (all of them in my opinion) require the application
> of engineering as well as other domains of knowledge to be labelled "best"
> in any meaningful way. To exclude engineering from the list of sources of
> input in which they are interested is just incorrect.
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