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Re: Foundations (Was: [ldraw.org] Eve of Beginnings)
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:45:49 GMT
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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:29:30 GMT, Patrick Sayre-Little
<wsayreli@polymail.calpoly.edu> wrote:

Terry K wrote:


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.

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.

Hmm...  it sounds like you are subtly insulting us.  :-)

-- Terry K --
Overlord, Office of Ridiculously Anal Procedures.



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(...) I didn't intend it that way. I was just pointing out that "Foundation" doesn't have to mean a charitable organization. (...) I _definately_ didn't want to imply that. :) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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