24th February 2009, 11:29 PM
Well in the last week there has been administrative support for a validation meeting ( every 6 weeks and a huge burden of office staff), a Finds group meeting, an editorial board meeting as well as I think a meeting discussing training development in various aspects with certain ' stakeholder ' bodies, and probably quite a few other meetings ( these are only the ones that I know about because of direct or indirect involvement) as well as organising the conference for April, working for the next edition of TA, facilitating newsletters for various SIGs, administrating existing projects (such as Training which some of us think worthwhile) and the usual 'day to day' running of the institute, not to mention tasks which have been delayed because of holding the seminar in the first place - alongside covering for illness, holiday, maternity leave - and in the 6 working days since the seminar someone is supposed to have had the time to collate papers from 8 speakers, write up some proposed points of action and get check the final document. Paul's contribution is very good and has obviously filled a gap whilst we are waiting - but look how his contribution has been taken out of context to promote what can only be described as a truly asinine 'discussion' on 'how dare Pete Hinton try to recruit for the IFA at an IFA organised event'