On Sunday 31 December 2006 03:26, jdd sur free wrote:
* on a defined subject, given by the first message.
Or advertised in advance, like it is now. All topics in agenda can be started at once as separate threads.
* discussion for a given duration (IE one week, for example)
It can be shorter (24 h) for topic that needs urgent action, or longer (until next meeting) for followups on action items, if necessary. In case of emergency can be used IRC anyway.
* with "soft" moderation, allowing a fast pace between questions and answers. news can nearly be "on sync" if necessary
The idea is to use only one server like support-forums.novell.com and than you can have the same pace as on IRC, as there will be no usenet propagation delay. It can be closed access for people with openSUSE account, so it will be possible to identify poster in case of problems, though I haven't seen much need for force and logins, looking in IRC logs.
news are better fitted for permanent net link (modem can be expensive),
With Knode is possible only online reading, but I'm sure that exist clients that can download messages and work offline.
anyway, if most of the users agreed, it's very easy to test it for a limited period of time and to make a decision afterward.
news is not yet used by openSUSE, it's a shame, this is a very old and very nice tool :-)
It is not much advertised, but there is a few groups on support-forums.novell.com listed on http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate adding one more for meetings shouldn't be a problem. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org