[Adium-devl] Meeting on April 5th

[Chris Forsythe]

Colin Barrett wrote:

>On Mar 16, 2007, at 4:55 AM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
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>Okay. What about my idea of having specific, targeted meetings? Would  
>that improve the situation for you at all? Or do you think you need to  
>be in person at meetings like ModuleRefactorization -- if so we'll try  
>to accommodate everyone, but I would really like for hal2k and ofri to  
>be there, and they are both in Europe. The "hey new guys" meeting  
>should be scheduled around the new folks and you and/or David, since  
>you guys were the ones who have had contact with them.
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>If nobody has any objections to targeted meetings, I can get the ball  
>rolling on that (but people need to take over it, eventually, and  
>again, a huge thanks to you Chris for taking the time to organize and  
>discuss this stuff. I think it's really important, and I hope you do  
>too).
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Ya, I think it's important, and we really need to come up with something 
better.

I'd like to not start scheduling meetings during work hours and school 
hours, based on the stance that those are more important. My stance on 
this with every project I've been involved with is that if school or 
work is affected by working on the project, then you need to take care 
of business there first. I think the same applies here, and that we 
should not be advocating attending while at work/school (but it's fine 
if you can and it won't affect things there).

Strategically thought out smaller "howto-esque" meetings sound good to 
me, I'll have to review the rest of your previous email when I get home. 
My belief was that these larger meetings were more about syncing 
everyone up with what everyone else is doing.

What do we actually need in a meeting? Do we need to have a sync up 
meeting or can that go to the mailing list? If so, it might be prudent 
to investigate airset (http://www.airset.com). If we had a shared 
calendar there multiple meetings a month could be scheduled during all 
sorts of different hours, which may be more of what is actually needed 
here. For instance, we'd have a new person orientation next week, and 
also 2 other sessions such as what you suggested and maybe a user 
training/workshop session as well.

Chris