On 18 Aug 2009, at 09:17, Nick Black wrote:
John,
I said:
so if you can't make it but would like to, please add your name to
the wiki so we can have a second call at a better time.
No-one is trying to exclude you - especially not the people who are
trying set up local groups and make OSM and the OSM-F more
inclusive :-) If there are people who want to take the call at a
Australia/Asia/New Zealand friendly time, I've said that I'll go out
of my way to make it and I'm sure some of the other Local Chapters
volunteers will as well.
Please add your details to the wiki page, suggest some friendly
times and we'll set up a call. Alternatively, organize the call
yourself at any time you want and give you feedback to the Local
Chapters group [email protected].
Would a 'local chapters' email list not be a great way to include
people from all around the world on different time zones for to
include those for whom English is a second language? A combination of
email list and wiki allow people to work at a time of there
convenience, gives people time to read and write at their own speed
(using translation tools if necessary) and there is a full history of
the discussion.
I suggest that conference calls and IRC are only used for those issues
where email is not working or getting to an resolution on a difficult
subject.
Regards,
Peter
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Nick
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:40 AM, John Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:
--- On Tue, 18/8/09, Nick Black <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chapters meetings. You can find minutes here [1] along
> with information about the next meeting.
There seems to be more questions posed than answers in the minutes...
> The next meeting is proposed for the 24th August
> at 18.00 - 19:30 BST. I know this is not great for a lot
> of people who are in non-BST friendly time zones, so if you
> can't make it but would like to, please add your name to
> the wiki so we can have a second call at a better
> time.
I did, but it didn't seem to make a difference, also there is at
least one other person that would like to have been in the
conference but wasn't an insomniac last night either.
> One of the goals of the meeting next week will
> be to set a timetable for getting local chapters set up,
> which will be largely dependent on how much we all agree /
> disagree in the call. Until then, please read over the
> Local Chapters wiki page and add as many comments or ideas
> as possible, so we can discuss next week.
It's a bit exclusionary to state that and then already acknowledge
that people can't make it due to time of day.
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