Advice on Organization

[Stephen Satchell]

At 9:27 PM 1/20/97, Philip J. Nesser II wrote:
>I believe that is exactly what will happen.  Try and remember that the
>orignal draft is only a few weeks old.  The standards bodies that you refer
>to tpyically take months (or years) between revisions.  I don't think a few
>weeks between is that bad, especially between the first and second cuts
>where there are a lot of changes.  If there are subsequent revs, I expect
>they will take shorter periods since more of the material will stay the
>same.


Phil,
     I'm currently in Florida attending one of those standards bodies you
refer to.  I tend to edit documents, and more than once I've gotten two or
three hours of sleep because I was taking comments from a meeting and
"sleeping" at Kinkos in order to get a revision to the meeting the next
day.  I have also done the job of taking suggestions from a mailing list
and incorporating them into a revision within 36 hours and posting the
result to a bulletin board.  One document I controlled went through five
revisions in seven days.  Substantial revisions for the most part, too,
because the committee finally found a direction that everyone liked.
     I was paying for the privledge to do this, too, to the tune of around
$3K in expenses.  Thank Ghu I was earning money at the time.  :)