On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:35:52 +1000, James Livingston <[email protected]> wrote: >> - At SOTM present and discuss their proposals and vote > > As others have mentioned this is bad because it penalises those who > can't go to SotM. IRC meetings could work, but as soon as you get more > than a certain number of people involved they need to be moderated, > and then tend to go on for a *long* time.
It's worth adding that I've never been to SOTM, and doubt I will ever go unless it's very local to me. Sometimes we have to admit that we can't include everyone, just as this busy mailing list excludes me most weeks of the year. The principal reason for suggesting SOTM is that - in my many years of experience with these matters - it's incredibly hard to sensibly discuss complex matters online. With a good facilitator and a well defined process of preparation, you can often solve these matters in a 100th of the time it would take over IRC or through a mailing list + wiki. Regards, Tom _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
