ed4copies
Local Chapter Manager
As Jeff is attempting to write TOS that will allow for peace and tranquility on the ol IAP, I'd like to introduce this topic for conversation:
How do we encourage innovation on IAP?
Years ago, new ideas were posted regularly. I believe the small IAP community had a few guys who were competitive with each other (RonMc and Eagle come to mind) and the process drove each to the next higher level of complexity in laminated blanks.
Neither wanted to COPY the other, they both wanted to OUTDO the other. (For those who don't know, this got rather unfriendly, but I met them both and they were both gracious to me!!)
As they competed, newer, more complex patterns emerged. The "art" of pen-making was advanced for the whole forum.
Since then, when a new pen design is presented, the clamor is NOT to try to "one-up", but to demand a tutorial and copy. Typically, innovators are not writers and a tutorial is the furthest thing from their intention. So, they stop presenting new ideas.
Anyone got a constructive idea on how to write the IAP rules to ENCOURAGE innovation and the competition that once made the IAP a "daily read" or you'd miss something???
Thanks!
How do we encourage innovation on IAP?
Years ago, new ideas were posted regularly. I believe the small IAP community had a few guys who were competitive with each other (RonMc and Eagle come to mind) and the process drove each to the next higher level of complexity in laminated blanks.
Neither wanted to COPY the other, they both wanted to OUTDO the other. (For those who don't know, this got rather unfriendly, but I met them both and they were both gracious to me!!)
As they competed, newer, more complex patterns emerged. The "art" of pen-making was advanced for the whole forum.
Since then, when a new pen design is presented, the clamor is NOT to try to "one-up", but to demand a tutorial and copy. Typically, innovators are not writers and a tutorial is the furthest thing from their intention. So, they stop presenting new ideas.
Anyone got a constructive idea on how to write the IAP rules to ENCOURAGE innovation and the competition that once made the IAP a "daily read" or you'd miss something???
Thanks!