On Monday 06 April 2009 09:28:52 am Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
Hi all,
Given the huge spread in time zones (some folks in Europe, some in Australia and Japan), and the fact that many marketing team members are working at the time we have meetings, I wonder if trying to hold IRC meetings is the best use of time?
So, I wanted to ask the group -- is a bi-weekly IRC meeting useful, or can we put an agenda on the wiki and have a discussion on the mailing list?
Thoughts?
The only advantage of IRC is that discussion is focused, it goes topic by topic. The same can be achieved on ML, with additional benefit that there is no need to discuss whole agenda at once, but as it comes up. Set subject to Metting, as a signal that everyone is asked for comment, and limit time for receiving comments to a day or two. Post summary as answer to initial post, which will mark that discussion is over. On the wiki side we need list of open topics, time table for each, and conclusions to closed, which would be the same text as in summary email. Besides ML there are http://forums.opensuse.org that can be accessed trough web interface, or NNTP (Usenet). I'm not familiar with all forum options, so I can't identify those that can be useful for meeting type of threads, but one that can be useful is ability to remove offtopic comments, keeping discussion clean. Having marketing meetings on forums.opensuse.org can give greater visibility of marketing efforts to younger generation that is used to, and frequent more web forums. The problem with ML and forums is that people can be very verbose, which would put more load on person that wants to create summary. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org