[maemo-developers] Let's do something together in LinuxTag

[From: nick loeve]

Hi again

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:18 PM, nick loeve <trickie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Simon Pickering
> <S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Quoting Frantisek Dufka <dufkaf at seznam.cz>:
>>> Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote:
>>>> Is the irc meeting log available somewhere?
>>>>
>>> Something is here
>>> http://maemo.org/maemo-meeting/maemo-meeting-2008-05-13.html
>>> but it appears to be cut at midnight. I couldn't attend so actually I'm
>>> not sure if there was anything interesting past midnight.
>>>
>>
>> Regarding what we're doing at LinuxTag, we didn't get round to
>> discussing that (at least not by 11:45 GMT+1 when Quim wrapped up and
>> people started leaving). We'll have to reschedule a chat about that.
>>
>> Hopefully a more complete log is available as Quim kept answering the
>> backlog of questions up until that point (i.e. beyond the end of that
>> log).
>>
>> We'll also have to think about a better way of organising IRC meetings
>> - it must have been rather painful for Quim writing answers to
>> questions asked ~10min previously, and then missing the comments
>> people made as he answered (and also confusing for people asking
>> questions, wondering why they weren't being answered straight away).
>> Someone suggested a separate chat channel and a channel simply for
>> questions.
>
> http://dberkholz.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/how-to-run-an-effective-meeting-on-irc/

The comments also 'capture' the fun that is gentoo organisation ATM,
but I think the ideas are worthwhile.

>
> Some tips on how they do meetings for Gentoo...
>
> An agenda that is set before hand (such as the list of questions
> already compiled) would probably have been more effective for one
> person to really answer properly. It does mean that spur-of-the-moment
> things sometimes need to be squashed, but if this is going to be a
> regular (or more than one time) thing then they can always be added to
> the next agenda.
>
> Moderated voice in the channel is probably also more effective as
> there was a lot of off topic conversation that didn't need to be
> there. At least people can then take the time to say something in full
> without ten lines of off topic conversation in between. Also helps
> when reviewing the conversation after.
>
> Just my 2 cents
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Simon
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>
>
>
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> Nick Loeve
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