I saw Kevan's note (he pinged me and let me know what a great mentor I
am :-P)
First off, conference calls are not taboo. Some people work better
via phone than they do with e-mail. And, often times it is faster to
vet ideas via the phone. That said, it may not work for all people so
this is a community decision and, as Kevan points out, can be
problematic for folks. Consider a world wide community with people in
multiple timezones. Ironically, I just finished a work related
conference call with some colleagues in China; I scheduled it in the
PM our time so it would be early morning their time.
I'd go ahead with the call and see who can make it. Heck, your phone
number is now Googleable which is kind of nice :) Take lots of notes
and make sure to post the results back to the list so people can read
what happened and comment. The fact that you posted the time and the
meeting and what you wanted to discuss on the list is excellent. I'd
be concerned if I saw an e-mail that said something like, "We met over
at NC State yesterday and decided that ..." That would definitely not
be good; decisions are made via e-mail with community input. Apache
Geronimo had a spot of confusion a couple of years ago when a number
of committers met at Java One and the meeting location and time we're
not well communicated.
One thing that is a good indicator of communication is the number of
commits relative to the number of e-mails on vcl-...@. No hard and
fast thing here but in general the amount of communication on the list
is relative to the number of e-mails. I've seen some results of
people doing a little analysis on that.
Other thoughts from devs are welcome.
Matt
On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Brian Bouterse wrote:
I'd like to have a VCL developers call, where the following agenda
can be discussed with the community. If you'd like to join the
discussion, it will be from 1-3pm EST on Thurs Feb 5th. To join,
dial in to 919.515.7151.
I apologize for the late notice; my invite a few days ago never made
it onto the list. If you're reading this, my e-mail subscription
problem has been resolved.
Tentative Agenda (this gets us started, please add):
1) Update of the ESX provisioning module
2) Update of the OS modularization effort
3) Possibility of using NX as a connection protocol
4) <insert your agenda item here>
