15th September 2010, 09:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 15th September 2010, 09:32 PM by trainedchimp.)
I've known a couple of people who got themselves onto 'tender lists' through threats of legals, and the only reliable explanation I've ever heard (from curator who'd faced down such threats) was that you have three options:
1) list people who have previously worked in the LPA area
2) direct people to the IfA (or other 3rd party) list
3) have no list at all
4) list people who have said that they want to work in the LPA area
what is unsustainable is having any form of recommendation that could be challenged- less because of any genuine fear of getting successfully sued, more for the sheer hassle involved. At the moment, I can't see anyone genuinely believing that the IfA list is any guarantee of good work, but as the foxy one points out, it is the only one that has a transparent(ish), published and peer-based review - not perfect, but better than anything else. The more people who joined or got involved, the more effect they'd be able to have, and the more meaningful RO status could become. They're in the Catch-22 of not enough members to have any more effect and widespread cynicism (not least about the influence of the big units and the usual suspects) preventing more people joining. But I digress.
1) list people who have previously worked in the LPA area
2) direct people to the IfA (or other 3rd party) list
3) have no list at all
4) list people who have said that they want to work in the LPA area
what is unsustainable is having any form of recommendation that could be challenged- less because of any genuine fear of getting successfully sued, more for the sheer hassle involved. At the moment, I can't see anyone genuinely believing that the IfA list is any guarantee of good work, but as the foxy one points out, it is the only one that has a transparent(ish), published and peer-based review - not perfect, but better than anything else. The more people who joined or got involved, the more effect they'd be able to have, and the more meaningful RO status could become. They're in the Catch-22 of not enough members to have any more effect and widespread cynicism (not least about the influence of the big units and the usual suspects) preventing more people joining. But I digress.