A Consensus (and the wish list) [RE-wrenches]

[William Miller]

Travis:

Let me see if I understand:  You haven't had time to keep up on e-mail, so
your worried about us submitting the wish list to Trace without your having
time to review it?  If that's the case, your concern sounds reasonable.  I
suggest we set a deadline to submit the list to Trace and then do so.  How
about Feb 15?

I don't feel there is a lot of contention on the content of the wish list.
There are a few points upon which we do not all agree, i.e. default  charge
settings.  I don't think this kills the deal.  I suggest we submit the list
to Trace and encourage dialog with their engineers.  After all, this is
free R&D.  They may take our ideas and improve upon them, or convince us
one or two of them are not such good ideas after all.  I always support
large group brainstorming-- one person suggests something that inspires an
idea in someone else, etc.

How do we know that Trace will be receptive to this wish list?  Has someone
given them a heads up?  I suppose they have been reading it as it elopes,
if they are paying any attention at all to us (and I hope we rate, in their
estimation, enough for them to be watching this list).

Should we present our ideas to Vanner as well, in the spirit of fostering
competition?

I also propose that Michael Welch write Trace (and Vanner, if we so decide)
an introductory letter buttering them up and asking them to review our wish
list shortly after the deadline.  How about it Michael?

I look forward to comments.

William Miller	


At 05:14 PM 1/22/01 -0800, Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar wrote:
>Gang,
>There has been a handful of posts lately that we have all been asked to
>respond to.  I have been very busy lately so I haven't been paying enough
>attention to the list.  I apologize.  I have caught a few members saying
>something along the lines of  "well since no one want to do this then I
>guess " and so on.  This leads to hard feelings and Don Quixote (how is that
>spelled) syndrome.
>
>We need to work up a method for getting a consensus on issues that
>individuals bring to the group.

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