On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:17:03PM -0600, Rich Bowen wrote:
> 
> On Nov 3, 2008, at 15:02, Christian Mohn (h0bbel) wrote:
> 
> > You can't really be serious here, right?
> 
> One hopes not.

I'm almost certain Owen is just being provocative.

> IRC is an exclusive medium - which is to say it excludes people who  
> are not in the timezone in which the conversation is taking place. As  
> such, it's an inappropriate medium for project discussion. In addition  
> to which, those of us with jobs that require constant attention can't  
> participate even if we are in the same timezone. Thus, we could,  
> theoretically, catch up on the conversation after the fact, but we  
> could not participate in the conversation.

The timezone issue certainly hits the nail on the head for me. We need
more Australians (and kiwis and asians :) in the project.

-- 
Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University
http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog
IRC: michaeltwofish #habari

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