Milliongenerations talk:Letters

The Letters are a good project with pure intentions. But it is not workable this way! Needs improvements:

• Ask really well known poets, like Ramsey Nasr (Dichter des Vaderlands) or Remco Campert to start the effort and publicize it big time in mainstream media
• Publish a booklet every year with the poem to date that people will want to keep and give to each other
• Think big, don't be limited by money, which can be found for good ideas
• Keep the poem alive: let the sponsors decide the pace of its growth. Let go of the 'one letter per week' and rather publish as many as people want to pay for at a fixed price. This avoids the auction and makes things quicker and you don't know where a given year ends
• Implement something that makes theft of the stones difficult
• Don't put names in the side of stones. Nobody sees that and it is technically difficult
• Don't put a number on the stones beneath the letter either, this is ugly, difficult and makes the letter itself smaller and much less legible
• Present the project with a solid, accountant-drafted budget to sponsors
• Have the project run by a legal entity, foundation better than association, and make sure it is run by professionals, not by volunteers who can not be held to account

--Peter 22:33, 28 November 2011 (UTC)