A small celebration of boldness

All,

I'd like to shout a small "hooray" to the people who in the last few days
have quite noticeably, and unusually, taken the initiative on several
fronts.  Warren Schudy and Steve Ewen have worked quite a bit on
[[CZ:Reusing Citizendium Content]], and Joe Quick has started [[CZ:Ready for
approval]].  These aren't the only or the first examples of bold
initiative-taking, but they came without any special request, and this is
something I've been thinking lately that we need to see more of.

Unless I am mistaken, their initiative might be at least in part due to our
successful brainstorming session, here:
http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1421.0.html
I think that as we as a group get a glimpse of what we regard as our top
priorities, we might be more motivated to help make it happen.

Now, if you also take the initiative, and I weigh in and ask harsh-sounding
questions, or edit your work, please don't take it personally...birds gotta
fly, fish gotta swim, I gotta criticize.

I'm also happy that participation seems to be bouncing back after a
mid-December lull (exactly as I expected).

By the way, what will the outcome of our brainstorming be?  Well, yesterday
I started composing a new planning document, which I'm circulating among
some Executive Committee members, and we are going to start acting on this
stuff.  Of course, nothing will happen without proper input, review, and
action by the community and our governance processes.  I can tell you that
we won't be able to achieve so much if there aren't a lot more people
willing to take the initiative.  If I am the only initiator, things will go