A poor choice of words on my part.
I am refering to peoples resistance to change. "If it ain't broke don't fix
it" attitude. I see it all the time in my line of work. People get so used
to a certain methodology or process, that they fail to see the potential to
optimize the process.
as for the web development, that's a small part of what do professionally.
I was not attempting to trivialize the work needed to develop a good
website.
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Jerry Mouton
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:42 AM
> To: Bay_Area_Autocross_List
> Subject: Re: Preregistration and computerized timing/scoring
>
>
> Chris,
>
> The programs to do the web results were not technically
> difficult, but they did take about 300 hours of my time
> to develop over two years. Trivial, no.
>
> Politics didn't even come into it, I just had a better idea
> and went out and did it. Nobody complained or stood
> in the way, because I didn't tell them about it until I was
> ready to show it. If I did tell them, they would have been
> continuously bugging me to get it finished faster, and to
> change it to be like they envisioned it.
>
> Please, tell us more about this political roadblocks that
> have stood in your way...
>
> Jerry
>
> Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
> rouler!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Warner" <jabrwoky@pacbell.net>
> To: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>;
> "Bay_Area_Autocross_List" <ba-autox@autox.team.net>; "Mark J. Andy"
> <marka@telerama.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 8:41 AM
> Subject: RE: Preregistration and computerized timing/scoring
>
>
> > The only challenge that prevents us geeks from implementing an automated
> > system is not technical, but political. Building the infrastructure,
> coding
> > the software, and deploying the system live. It's so technically easy
> it's
> > almost trivial. The hard part is getting people to accept it
> and use it.
> I
> > am a programmer, not a politician. That's why us geeks have failed so
> far.
> > We don't do politics.
> >
> > I bet 20 years ago people were saying it would be impossible to
> report the
> > results in 2 days electronically.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of John F. Kelly Jr.
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 8:20 AM
> > To: Bay_Area_Autocross_List; Mark J. Andy
> > Subject: Re: Preregistration and computerized timing/scoring
> >
> >
> > -------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
> >
> > Message text written by "Mark J. Andy"
> >
> > "Given where you guys run, I find it pretty hard to believe that you
> > wouldn't have geeks jump all over each other for the easy work
> assignment
> > :-)"
> > -------------------- End Original Message --------------------
> >
> > The "geeks" have ALL thrown up their hands. That's going back over 10
> > years.
> >
> > Our present "old fashioned" system does one important thing. It works.
> >
> > --John Kelly
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