Στις 8 Μαρτίου 2012 11:33 μ.μ., ο χρήστης Pascal Bleser
I'd like to propose or at least discuss dropping the bi-weekly openSUSE project meetings on IRC.
Reasons are: * because of timezones, work/family/etc, only a handful of people is able to attend the meetings (and there is no solution to that); * as far as I've been attending those meetings (so that's a few years now already), there have always been 5 or 6 people who have participated (aside from the board team); * there is nothing that is discussed there that couldn't be discussed on the opensuse-project mailing list instead.
Now, that meeting also acts as a board meeting, but * the board can still meet, that's up to the board team to define; * anyone can poke the board team any time via email or poke us individually on IRC; * as far as transparency is concerned, we can, should and will publish emails about our decisions and our work anyway.
Any reason to keep the IRC project meetings? I don't see any, even though I'm quite fond of IRC ;)
cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf
Hello, First of all, you never know how many people just watch. I don't know the technical part but at the start of the meeting, charman can make a call of the people that are there, just to say +1 or maybe if there can be a link with the wiki username. By the way, if there'll be such system, the admins know about members and if they participate to any team meeting or just give up. About the time zones, there can one meeting for North-South America, one for Europe-Africa and one for Asia-Australia. I think there are some issues in common (such as GSoC) but there are also issues only about those zones. There can be for example one IRC project meeting so there will be at least one participant from every area and discuss issues of his/her area and inform participants of his/her area about decisions of project meeting. If there are no subjects to discuss, it's no use to have a meeting. At least it's what we do in Greece. We try though to have a meeting every 2 weeks. Please forgive me if I didn't make it clear. I study obstetrics and I'm quite dizzy. Have a lot of fun. Stathis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org