On Thursday 26 May 2005 05:00 pm, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > I think someone else made that actual statement, but it fairly > accurately represents my view of his scheme.
That was me. :) > Yeah, I'm of two minds about this. I'd like to see more engagement > by SIG's, but I'd also like to see the SDCS meetings be almost > inconsequential. An official SDCS meeting should be about 15 minutes > *total*; everything else should be unofficial/informal discussion > afterward. This is part of the reason why I don't understand what > the big issue was with heading up SDMUG and SDCS. If the SDCS > meetings are long and annoying, it's because they allow them to be. This is actually a large part of the reason I would strongly consider going for the SDCS presidency once a new general election is scheduled. There's absolutely no reason so much of what was discussed really needed to be part of the official meeting. Christ, we spent, what, 30 minutes bullshitting about website design before they actually acknowledged my willingness to volunteer for webmaster for sdcs.org? > Personally, I think that having an sdcs-steer mailing list (which > should be public) would go a long way to wiping out any length of > that meeting. That way, topics can be discussed at length and at > leisure rather than at the meeting. At that point, the sole purpose > of the meeting effectively becomes a vote on the actions of the > mailing list discussion. One of the things I would very much like to do is send out a finalized agenda 24 hours before the scheduled meeting. Anything not on the agenda can be brought up in an "additional business" period _after_ "old business" and "current business". If it sounds like it's going to take more than five minutes, it gets tabled for the next meeting. > It would also help out with communication coordination. I have been > somewhat surprised at how disconnected the SDMUG folks sometimes seem > to be even with respect to each other. it's almost as if they're afraid of the Internet. :) Gregory -- Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu
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