Hi. First, apologies for not attending the meeting... and see bellow why.
Let's just, if you pardon me, focus for a moment on internal communication, unless it's totally out of topic. And in this case, discard the rest of this post. Generally, I find it very hard to imagine an open community can be sustainable if requiring that parts of its communication happens on the phone in conf calls. I know it's probably necessary to bootstrap some groups, or to discuss things where written communication is not agile enough to allow fruitfull branstorming effects, etc. But, most of the times I'd imagine that a lot can be done through electronic communication means like chat rooms, mail, wikis, etc. OK, that may not be the way it happens in companies, but it works quite well in many open source communities for instance, or standardisation bodies. I'll not mention the need to face to face physical encounters, as that's enough lecturing, if you start to get my point. Why is that : - timezones - accents and level of mastery of english - asychronous collaboration when no need to block everyone's agenda at the same time allows to work in trains, planes, @home when baby asleep, etc. So I, for instance, just happen to live near Paris, France, and don't feel so much comfortable with expressing myself on the phone among american (or other english speaking natives) people. And I sometimes am having dinner, or going to fetch kids at school, when it's meeting time US east coast ;) Nevertheless, I happend to contribute (not a lot, but still) to OSLC. Think about people like me, their potential to contribute, disseminate, convince... Of course, that matters for internal discussions in OSLC. But it the goal is to attract contributors, then you shall not cut yourself from 4/5th of the world ;-). OK, I agree that most commercial software houses live in the US, and have staff barely sustaining conf-calls in english, but still. Now, that said, I'd be pleased to read from your minutes still, and I guess there's no more need to rant on phone communicaton. Now, for a more constructive contribution : http://incubator.apache.org/guides/community.html But, if it's more about "marketing" (though I saw the discussion around that term) of solutions vs attracting contributors/participants, then this may not apply so well. Happy promotion of OSLC. Best regards, P.S.: my own little contribution to OSLC promotion can be traced here in most part : http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/weblog/tag/oslc/ Le vendredi 16 septembre 2011 à 11:31 +0100, Andy Gurd a écrit : > The minutes from the 15 Sept meeting of the OSLC communications > workgroup can be found here: > http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/OslcCommsMtg15Sep2011 > > For those that attended, thank you very much for your participation. > Please could you review and let me know (or make your own amendments) > if you would like anything changed. > > Regards > > Andy > -- Olivier BERGER <[email protected]> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)
