2008/12/14 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2008/12/14 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2008/12/14 AndrewRT ratur...@yahoo.co.uk:
There are advantages in having in person meetings as well, though - it
gives us an opportunity to discuss things more informally and get to
know each other more that you can with an online meeting.
For an AGM, a meeting in person may be appropriate, for all the social
reasons you describe.
For getting stuff done, IRC meetings are very nicely practical things
IME. The chair needs to ride herd on them firmly and everyone needs to
keep to the agenda, but they work quite well enough. And of course you
have the log to hand.
The key thing about an AGM that makes IRC impractical is the size. A
board meeting with less than 10 people works great online (as long as
you have a decent chair). An AGM with 20+ people is another matter and
no chair could handle that well. You would end up with people talking
over each other too much and everything would get confused. You can
hold a QA with those kind of numbers online (people PM the chair with
their questions), but not an actual discussion.
Umm, +m? And sure you can hold actual discussions, it's just all
moderated through the Chair. I generally find, if anything, that the
meetings are more effective and efficient.
J.
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