Re: MDRGN Inaugural Message

[robert oakeshott <robert.oakeshott@virgin.net>]

on 30/3/02 1:12 am, RaceM at race@netspace.net.au wrote:

> Dear Colleagues
> 
> Thank you for agreeing to participate in COG's new International
> Mondragon Studies Association working group. As you will note, the
> name of the group begs a question, in that as yet there is no
> Association, but simply a conviction on my part that one is required.
> It is my hope that the group will have the effect of drawing together
> a sufficient number of people with an interest in Mondragon for
> critical mass to be achieved and an organisation to be formalised.
> 
> Meanwhile, at the invitation of the people at the Kent State
> University Capital Ownership Association, I have posted as a possible
> basis for discussion the draft of a paper about Mondragon which I am
> to deliver at their conference in Washington in October. COG's idea
> is that the draft should remain available for scrutiny, comment,
> queries and suggestion until - say - the end of July, when a revised
> version would be prepared. Needless to say, it is not intended that
> this process should in any way limit discussion. Other group members
> may have completely unrelated lines of thought about Mondragon which
> they wish to pursue, and should feel free to do so.
> 
> Meanwhile, I should add by way of apology that the draft paper in the
> form in which it currently appears on the site has lost much of its
> formatting in transmission - as will be seen from the differing type
> sizes and lack of indentation - and COG expects to upload an rtf
> version which I have now sent them shortly.
> 
> COG has also agreed to have a  Spanish version of the draft paper
> posted shortly, although, given that my only language is English,
> discussion will need to be in English, at least until an
> appropriately multi-lingual replacement for me as moderator can be
> obtained.
> 
> Thanks again, and all good wishes, Race Mathews.
dear Dr Mathews, thanks for your email about a Mondragon Rsearch Association
which reached me here in London on March 30. I will certainly be happy to
read through and comment on the paper to which you refer once it arrives.
But I should emphasise that this computer has a rather poor record when it
comes to reading attachments. Still if you are working within a time frame
which runs until October, it shuld be possible for you to send out copies of
the paper by ordinary airmail. I look forward to getting one. Best wishes
from robert oakeshott.