Excerpts from Sean Dague's message of 2017-05-03 13:23:11 -0400: > On 05/03/2017 01:02 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > Excerpts from Thierry Carrez's message of 2017-05-03 18:16:29 +0200: > >> Ed Leafe wrote: > >>> On May 3, 2017, at 2:41 AM, Thierry Carrez <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> In the current > >>>> system, TC members (or really, anyone in the community) can add to the > >>>> "Open discussion" section of the meeting agenda, but that happens > >>>> extremely rarely. I suspect that the 5 minutes per week that we end up > >>>> dedicating to open discussion in the meetings does not encourage people > >>>> to load large topics of discussions in it. > >>> > >>> Simple: *start* the meeting with Open Discussion. > >> > >> I don't really see how that would solve the agenda problem. > >> > >> I think it's better for everyone if people post topics they want to > >> discuss in advance. Europeans who want to attend need to stay up late, > >> People in the APAC zone need to get up very early. Knowing up-front what > >> will be discussed might (might) give people in those zones the extra > >> incentive they need to attend. > >> > > > > Knowing what will be discussed in advanced also helps everyone collect > > their thoughts and be ready to contribute. > > What about ensuring that every agenda topic is more than a line, but > includes a full paragraph about what the agenda topic proposer expects > it will cover. A lot of times the agenda items are cryptic enough unless > you are knee deep in things. > > That would help people collect their thoughts even more and break away > from the few minutes of delay in introducing the subject (the > introduction of the subject would be in the agenda). > > -Sean >
If the goal is to move most of the discussion onto the mailing list, we could link to the thread(s) there, too. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
