On 12.03.2012 19:54, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Then again, nothing prevents anyone from discussing and brainstorming anything at any time on IRC. Really, do we need meetings for that? If we do, then we need a large amount of people to join them, or we're back to square one.
Why not stay with the meetings, publish the logs and discuss on a malinglist? So, people who are rather on IRC can keep their media and their prefered times, and the other won't bother too.
To be honest, if you want to influence things in this project, you should probably spend some time on IRC. IMHO that's where most interaction, influence and decision taking happens. It is no different in most if not all similar projects.
And here's the problem: The meeting's set for 18:00 UTC AFAIK. I'm living in Germany, so no problem for me to attend (Nevertheless you don't see me on IRC that often, I guess I have to change that...), but for someone who lives in, let me think, China, Russia or Japan, it possibly would be too late to attend (or maybe not, depends on the sleeping rhythm of the person, or if the person sleep at all.)
But it simply doesn't work for our (maybe too official) openSUSE project meeting there. At least in its current form.
I guess it's because people often forget about the meeting (like me). I want to attend, remember the time and date, and find myself watching TV exactly when the meeting is going to start and take place, whereas email is probably omnipresent in my life (on my PC, on my notebook, on my smartphone, sometimes even in my dreams.) So, email might be the better way to adress a bigger audience, whereas IRC would fit perfectly for the board meeting. My advice would be to keep the meeting for the board and for people who are interested in it, but discuss about major project decisions on the respective mailinglist. what about that? --kdl -- With the lights out, it's less dangerous -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org