Keep b*ggering on!
Andrew Smith SFHEA FRSA ????
UK Academic, HE in FE Specialist, Digital Technology Skills Evangelist, EDI Hero (according to WorldSkillsUK), Author & National Qualification Consultant [degrees | vocational | vendor | academic | apprenticeships]
If you have a good idea, if it is popular, if it is helping, doing good and is most probably the right thing to do! Some advice from the front line, is ...
Be prepared to keep buggering on, as most often they whomever 'they' are, will not understand what is being accomplished.
Before I receive any faux offence, the originator of the KBO phrase is Sir Winston Churchill - while one isn't engaged in total war, nor pretends that anything I do even compares. Time and again, I know that if you have a good idea, you need to be prepared to shove it down the necks of others as they are adept at doing the same old, same old, time and time again.
Recently, one has had to rethink what we are trying to accomplish - free isn't free, someone is paying for it somewhere. However, when it becomes established, many develop a sense of entitlement and complacency. Assuming that it will continue to be offered regardless, which sadly isn't the case.
While we will continue to KBO, for the time being, we are also rethinking our model. So please do free to watch this space.