Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM - large number of online participants

2008-12-14 Thread jonathan cardy 
Meetings with a large number of online or teleconferencing participants are 
practical, provided those in the aether are receiving but not sending (except 
maybe one at a time - for example Email the chair in advance if you want to 
pose a question and have the chair dial you in when your slot comes up). 

Regards

Jonathan Cardy (WereSpielChequers)

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--- On Sun, 14/12/08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM
 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Date: Sunday, 14 December, 2008, 2:10 PM
 2008/12/1 Michael Shilliday
 mjshilli...@googlemail.com:
  I have never commented here before, but why the need
 for a physical AGM?
   Incorporated companies have been having online AGMs
 for years now.  It may
  be necessary for a small group of people to be sitting
 in a room together,
  but the voting members don't necessarily need to
 be.
  There may be a hugely compelling reason why this is
 necessary, but that's
  just my thoughts,
  MJS
 
 Online meetings of large groups of people aren't
 practical. If we
 wanted members to just vote and that's it, then it
 would be fine, but
 we would like to actually get people involved in discussion
 and
 debate. It's pretty much impossible to maintain order
 in an IRC
 channel with dozens of people talking at once.
 
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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM - large number of online participants

2008-12-14 Thread Thomas Dalton 
2008/12/14 jonathan cardy dah...@yahoo.com:
 Meetings with a large number of online or teleconferencing participants are 
 practical, provided those in the aether are receiving but not sending (except 
 maybe one at a time - for example Email the chair in advance if you want to 
 pose a question and have the chair dial you in when your slot comes up).

Indeed. As I said in another thread, you can do a QA session that
way, but not a discussion. I would hope WMUK AGMs will be more than
just the membership quizing the board and will actually involve the
membership having a say in how the charity is run (and not just by
getting to vote for the board).

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