[ogsa-wg] Right said Fred...

[Andreas Savva]

Hi Jem

Minutes, a song *and* a glossary! You are setting an awfully high bar 
for minutes taking in GGF WGs.... :-)

Andreas

Treadwell, Jem wrote:
> Hi, for some reason working on the minutes this morning kept reminding 
> me of the the following song, which I realized might be a useful case 
> study of resource management.  It was published back in 1962, by a 
> British academic named Bernard Cribbins 
> (http://www.answers.com/topic/bernard-cribbins) - think of him as the 
> British working man's Tom Lehrer 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer).  I suspect all the Brits and 
> their children will know the song pretty well, but I doubt if it's well 
> known anywhere else.
>  
> The resource in question was a piano, and the management task was to get 
> it out of a house.  The process they followed is roughly the same as the 
> modern-day working group process of repeatedly taking a stab at a 
> problem and then heading for the bar (and slipping the schedule) when it 
> proves too difficult, but the language is particularly British, so for 
> those who are unfamiliar I've included a Glossary.  :0)
>  
> - Jem