Gordian Knot sculpture, John Robinson, 1982

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From: Dennis Budd <nitewing@ku.edu>

Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:04:59 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: Re: [no-list] Gordian knot

 

This issue of terminology is a Gordian knot. We got into this intensely soon after the list began when people tried to come up with a name for the organization. After failing to come up with any name that

  1. sat well with the cross-section of people on the list and
  2. would identify us to people in the outside community,
the consensus kind of became that moving forward on the organization, and not the name, was what was important, and that the name would have to come after, and not before.

Now the issue seems to be what term to use in defining our goals and directions. This is not so deferrable. But I don't think we are going to come together with anything solid anytime soon. This is going to be an ongoing process.

Dennis