The concern I've heard expressed during in-person discussions about how to
do this is that a written document of answers 'feels' more real and
concrete than a group of people answer questions live, since they clearly
have no chance to vet their answers from their own organization or with
each other. As long as the questions stay in the realm of what GWT
currently is, that wouldn't be an issue, but when we start jumping into the
"When will IE X support be dropped" or "When will Java Y support be added"
or "Why isn't my library being added to GWT" territory, the panelists may
feel as though it is safer to just leave the questions un-answered. That
said, this would be keeping in the reddit ama form...
With a live speaker and panel, if no one answers a question, the dead airs
gets to people, and someone steps up to try an answer or at least rephrase
the question, even though the answer might be qualified ("this is just my
opinion"), or vague ("we're still working through the specifics").
BTW, there is a /r/gwt already, we could start there for some informal
stuff (weekly/monthly AMAs), and then do a slightly more official call
quarterly?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:59 AM, James Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> A reddit-style AMA would be really cool; so long as we give enough warning
> and promo,
> (like posting the event in the G+ community a month ahead of time) I'm
> sure it would be a hit.
>
> The questions in the moderator would probably all get asked;
> though seeing some of them come up in the gwt-team meetings would be cool
> too.
>
> An actual hangout over a single time slot generally leaves a lot of people
> unable to come,
> so, maybe we'll see if we can keep attracting a lot of people to the
> community meetings,
> and maybe we'll get a greater audience to steering committee meetings.
>
> The only reason I was not viewing the public committee meetings was
> visibility;
> my gwt-contrib emails were getting filtered with hundreds of other group
> emails,
> so I didn't really keep up (have since create a filter specifically for
> Gwt).
>
> I am going to email Bhaskar to see if I can get plugged in on the meeting
> tomorrow,
> and I bet if we post it on G+, we'll see greater developer interest.
>
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