The minutes themselves are unimportant. In the same way the content of this email is unimportant. I wouldn't expect the community to want to help me improve the content of this email by offering fixes, so that I could resend it.
When you post the minutes of the meeting to the list, you are doing so as an individual. There is no need to copy edit them, or what have you. The important thing is that you are bringing the meeting to the mailing list. Additionally, the minutes should (and I've not seen this yet) make an explicit attempt to invite contribution or comment. Something like: These are the minutes from the weekly developer meeting on IRC. > Anybody is welcome to participate in these meetings, and they are held in > #cloudstack-dev, at XX:XX PST. These are the minutes from this week's meeting. Please feel free to comment > or ask questions. Eventually, this stuff will come second nature to the community, and it won't need to be stated so directly. (Though, it can't hurt.) I've stated this in another email today already, but it is worth repeating. Our number one priority at the moment should be attracting contributors to the project, in every shape and size (you don't need to contribute code to contribute to an Apache project). To quote myself from a few years ago: "Without a throng of decent, friendly people who are open to new ideas, discussion, and who enjoy collaborating and helping each other, a project like [CouchDB] is nothing. A good community can make up for poor documentation, and lack of features. A good community can make up for anything!" Or to put it another way, a friend recently asked me what we do at Apache. I told him we turn software into communities. ;) On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > > It might be good to post the minutes directly to the list, with a link to > > the log on the wiki. That way people can continue the conversation here > > if > > they want to. Sticking them on the wiki makes them feel "done", which is > > not what we want. We should also add a note the email to invite > > participation on the list. > > So, I'm happy to post minutes to the list, and will do that. > > But I disagree that putting them on the wiki makes them "done" in any > way. The whole point of wikis is that it's much easier to collaborate on > text (like fixing meeting minutes...) than trying to do coherent editing > via a mailing list. (Much in the same way that committing code to Git is > not saying it's "done") > > Best, > > Joe > -- > Joe Brockmeier > j...@zonker.net > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > -- NS
