Hi Michael, Christoph, all- > From: mich...@wheatland.com.au
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Christoph Noack <christ...@dogmatux.com> > wrote: [..] > > My personal wish is not so much answering these questions within the > > call, but to think about how to answer these questions with all the > > people here. What do you (all) think? IMHO it is not possible to reach a conclusion through even MULTIPLE meetings. If we attempt to get full answers, the first meeting would not go beyond the 1.x topics. @Verbal vs. written vs visual discussion: Verbal discussion is the least suited tool; because it is easy to overlook/ignore important aspects. Also, since many participants are non-English; a discussion would not be convenient. Discussion on wiki ranks next-worst, because people can expound on their theories without reaching a consensus. A option-selection tool such as Ubuntu Brainstorm is next-best, as it allows arguments in favor of a given option. But it works best when the problem and optional solutions are clearly known beforehand. For free-wheeling discussion and deriving solutions, concept-mapping (or argument-mapping) is the best tool. It can be installed on Drupal (SilverStripe does not have any similar tool). Alternatively a CMAP instance can be set up on a server temporarily. @How to remove "Not invented here" bias: I know people are still thinking about a faceoff between Silverstripe and Drupal. To remove such bias, CS should establish a "Lab" domain on the LibreOffice site. This is like the famous Google labs, where things would be tried out within a closed group, before rolling out on large scale. Anything new -be it "Drupal" or any other tool- should be tried there after getting approval. The proposer should create a project charter and publish it for general discussion and approval. > > [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/ConfCall/Agenda > I totally agree that we will likely not be able to answer the > questions in the call, as the answer to many of these questions will > require consultation with many other teams. > The expectation, as I understand it, is to assign specific people to > work at the interface between these teams, who have both the knowledge > of 'what is possible' and knowledge on the given topic. I would like to be on that team. Regards, Narayan -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
