Olin Lathrop wrote:
>> Should I take the silence to mean there is no interest?
>
> Or people haven't digested it yet (geesh, it's only been a day or so, have
> some patience),

I'm working on it. :) Thank you everyone who replied so far, at least I know 
the message made it to the list.


> or they are trying to figure out how to juggle this with
> existing commitments, or they are trying to come up with a project idea,

I hope you're right on this one. :)


> or they are intimidated by writing a article,

Good point. I would be happy to help proofread and edit the drafts.


> or yes, they have no iterest.

How can someone not have an interest in the wonderful and exciting field of 
on-board diagnostics? :-O


> I can only tell you for sure why I'm not interested.  I have done projects
> and have written articles, so I've got a reasonable idea what this will
> take.  I know I would be paid very poorly at $3000 for this job, so it 
> would
> have be something I do for fun.  However, I've already got a plenty long
> list of those kinds of projects, so I'm going to pick stuff I'm really
> interested in for my "free" time, and I don't currently have a high 
> interest
> in OBD2.  Or to answer in the form of a old joke, "I can't afford to do 
> it,
> I'm too expensive".

Fair comment, but as far as I can tell most articles in CircuitCellar are 
written by people who do it for fun or name recognition. The $3k is just an 
added incentive, or a means of justifying working on the project to a 
significant other.

Vitaliy 

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