If you conduct the meetings in voice, you also limit the ability of non-english 
speakers.  If it's done in chat, machine translation is a viable option.  Chat 
may take more time, but isn't it worth the time and effort to do things right?

On Aug 16, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Tateru Nino wrote:

> 
> 
> On 17/08/2010 4:56 AM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence) wrote:
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>> 
>>> Will try to come, hoping it's not going to be one of those voice meetings
>>> where non-English people like me can't speak well enough neither understand
>>> what is being said...
>> 
>> This meeting will include voice because it's so time consuming to do 
>> everything in chat.  We will have someone putting the important points into 
>> chat as much as possible, and will certainly respond to questions in chat.
>> 
>> For anyone who wants to have a separate chat-only meeting at another time, 
>> I'll be glad to set that up.
>> 
> Actually, I was thinking about the Americans With Disabilities Act, 
> personally. Especially as the anniversary of the Act has just been by. Unless 
> text, you know, clearly represents an "unreasonable burden".
> -- 
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