I'm new here, so if this has been discussed already, please pardon the noise.
> > What kind of meeting are we talking about? ASF communications are > > supposed to take place on a channel that everyone can access without > > being hampered too much by time zones, e.g. email lists. > If you want > > to meet in other forums, like IRC, that's cool, but please make sure > > everyone is invited, post a transcript of the meeting to the mailing > > list, and let people chime in on decisions made during the meeting. > > No one will probably chime in, but it's important to give them the > > chance. > > > > If you're thinking of another meeting, such as a conference call or > > in-person, the above doubly applies. Especially since qpid wants to > > grow a more diverse community ;) > > > > Yoav > > > > Yoav, yes I agree. > > (Reason for call versus IRC - ) In qpid we have quite a few > committers > that are not allowed > to access IRC except from home (found this out when we > debated doing IRC > about a year > ago). So thus the idea of a call, and it is well understood that we > need to be very careful to > bring all conversations on the call back to e-mail.. If we get people > that want to join that are > not in the timezones we will need to the update the arrangement. What about using something like gotomeeting.com with a conf call that can all be recorded and linked via a web page? -Steve Huston
