Gov Artcle, State Dept Use Case Thoughts

Hi Everyone,

I'm posting this to the humanorg list as well as the OASIS TC list because I can't be sure that the TC list will work with the rest of the OASIS web infrastructure down from the hack attacks Karl notified us about Friday.

Russell and I finished up work on the article aimed at involving the largest software tech companies in using HumanML and he has suggested we carry on with an article aimed at government. He and I have only begun feeling our way toward a focus for this and I have had it on my back burner over the weekend.

Basically I have concentrated lately on the State Department Use Cases I promised Ranjeeth, in response to his suggestion months ago that this was the most likely target to produce funding, which our non-profit needs. I also suspect that what Ranjeeth really needs and wants, almost more than funding, is to attract someone capable of taking on the Conflict Resolution Subcommittee tasks that, like any such subcommittee tasks when combined with chairing the TC, or any other TC or subcommittee, tends to stretch anyone to their limits.

I happen to know this quite well, and face a similar situation. However, I have to put that concern even farther into the background when I start trying to focus on a topic to write on with respect to practical and beneficial applications of HumanML.

I mention all this because it illustrates the problems inherent in simply getting down to work on something, not just HumanML, Conflict Resolution, or writing an article. It always becomes a matter of priorities. Somehow, this train of thought, with the spur of frustration from the complete lack of any response to those State Dept Use Cases on which I spun my wheels a bit in the last couple of weeks, led to a surprising conclusion.

No one is interested.

Duh? I'm a wee bit slow sometimes, but I eventually get it.

Okay, well the obvious thing is, as the Doctor says when told it hurts to do something, "Don't DO that!"

But what happens when one is simply not put together to accept this obvious conclusion? If you're me, you put it on the back burner and let it cook some more.

It did that and it came back with another surprise, "Duh?"

Why am I saying that so much today, I thought. Like I said, I'm a little slow sometimes. It occurred to me that I had something in common with the very policies I find chafing in my Iraq-based Use Cases. I was only offering pat solutions:

"Hang in there, it takes time, just do what I say and everything will be all right. "

In my case, I was saying, "... just add HumanML interpreters and translators, and it will get better, eventually."

And what is there to say to that?

Okay. So ... ?

Like I said, "Duh?"

Well, hopefully, I'll get it someday. In the meantime what I think is that, we don't have HumanML Interpreters and Translators, and, in fact, we don't have a set of secondary vocabularies to use in such work.

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