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Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:29:30 GMT
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Terry K wrote:
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> Jeremy beat me to it with the definition.
> I don't have a strong objection to "Foundation", but to me it has connotations
> of a funded organization that contributes monies to various causes. Heck, just
> read the definition.
> That somehow, to me at least, does not seem to reflect what we are doing. And
> even might be a little misleading. An outsider hearing of the "LDraw
> Foundation" could well get a wrong impression of what it is. Foundations are
> what support programming on PBS. And send deserving students to college. And
> underwrite environmental research expedetions to Amazon rainforests.
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> It just does not ring true.
On the other hand, "The Foundation" at Cal Poly is the main controlling agency
on campus. People tend to say "Foundation" with a very negative tone, mainly
due to thier ridiculusly anal procedures and policies; despite the fact that
they pay most people's paychecks. Perhaps "The LDraw Foundation" fits somewhere
in between.
--
Patrick Sayre-Little | "Someday we'll look back on all this
wsayreli@polymail.calpoly.edu | and we'll run into a parked car."
http://www.calpoly.edu/~wsayreli | -anonymous
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| (...) Jeremy beat me to it with the definition. I don't have a strong objection to "Foundation", but to me it has connotations of a funded organization that contributes monies to various causes. Heck, just read the definition. That somehow, to me at (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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