To Tim Cresswell and everyone-else
Can you please send me a copy of the CGF Constitution so I can put it
up on the CGF webpage.
Can you please clarify what you mean by a membership list?
Is this the same as the LIST membership of Mailbase ? This
interests me as there is no explicit statement currently given to new
members joining the List that they are also joining an organisation.
In terms of consolidating the CGF then I think this _is_ Critical.
In addition I think it would also be worth putting together a text
calling for association with related study groups, societies, _and_
environmental, social and political movements. We need I think to
start to be much more pro-active in spreading ourselves about in
other lists and liasoning and meeting with other groups, beyond the
RGS. This is an international groups now.
Plus other, prehaps you might think them unimportant things.
Do we have a logo?
Do we have headed notepaper?
Is there a commitee?
Do we have a leader/leaders?
Who is running this organisation?
How are they elected?
If there is money in a kitty, how much?
Who controls it?
What is it being spent on?
How is the money collected ?
Can it buy me some Web-software to help build up the website?
Can we buy our own webspace and become criticalgeography.com?
Do we have enough money to fund postgrads or undergrads or anyone
else on short projects to develop this web-site ?
If the CGF is running a conference in Coventry in September then why
is it not been advertised more actively as a CGF initiative rather
than an RGS one? Can someone send me the details so I can put in on
the Website now!!
Finally, just as you all are thinking I am some kind of nutcase,
("I've got that Friday Feeling") Could I just re-iterate to members
of the Forum that there is absolutely NO TECHNICAL REASON why an
electronic journal cannot be operated from the current CGF web-site
right now. I mean this is like me saying "Hello, my name is Robert
Maxwell and I have a large publishing Plant, and loads of paper and
complete distribution net-work and you can come over and bloody
well publish the Communist Manifesto if you like". The problem with
an electronic journal is that, as Dave Gilbert has already pointed
out, it needs to be peer reviewed and it needs some heavy weights
behind it. Now in three months time there will be 500 people on this
list, (5/6 new people everyweek) and in two years time there will
be a 1000. More Peers in there that the flippin House of Lords. Plus
plenty of opportunity for innovative reviewing. And there are
also enough Profs and other well-established people in there as
well...so lets get discussing this and also firmer manifestions of the
CFG as an active organisation.
Denis Linehan
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