<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' ><tr><td style='font: inherit;'>Hi,<br><br>at Globewide Network Academy, we have held on-line meetings on a daily basis.<br>It was more than 15 years ago at Media Moo.<br>Interaction is what counts in interational environment.<br>GNA was one of the world's first virtual corporations.<br>Administered mailing lists provide no interaction.<br>Web forums are closed to outsiders, indexing algorithms don't work well.<br>Much better social environment offer Usenet groups or Google groups nowadays.<br><br>Joined another open source project and administrators control and read private emails<br>sent peer-to-peer, between members of the forum.<br><br>No more good times for corporate open source projects.<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 13/5/08, Quim Gil <i><quim.gil@nokia.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Quim Gil
<quim.gil@nokia.com><br>Subject: Re: Let's do something together in LinuxTag<br>To: "ext Kees Jongenburger" <kees.jongenburger@gmail.com><br>Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org<br>Date: Tuesday, 13 May, 2008, 7:39 AM<br><br><pre>Hi,<br><br>ext Kees Jongenburger wrote:<br>> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Simon Pickering<br>> <S.G.Pickering@bath.ac.uk> wrote:<br>>><br>>> > I have been thinking about what to present at linuxtag. I can<br>not easely<br>>> > make a choice right now because we are lacking some form of<br>"grand goal".<br>>> > Can we try to elaborate on the topics? perhaps also have an irc<br>meeting<br>>> > between linuxtag contributors?<br>>><br>>> Sounds useful, what about after the IRC meeting tomorrow evening?<br>> Hello Simon,<br>> <br>> Yes sounds fair.<br><br>I will be there as well. :)<br><br>> <br>> I would be happy if we indeed can try
to define the "grand goal"<br>> -what kind of people are attending (question partially answered)<br>> -Can we define this "grand goal".<br>> -Can we try to make the different topics match or have a logical flow.<br>> <br>> lets see how the first meeting goes<br><br>imvho the grand goal is to meet for the first time under an official<br>maemo umbrella and have a good time sharing dreams and concerns.<br>Removing a couple of obstacles for progress, thinking about short and<br>mid term improvements and creating an inertia for further productive<br>discussion on&offline.<br><br>For each person attending, just discuss about what matters to you and<br>want to share. Let's also think about the rest of time out of the track.<br>Most of us are staying 2 or more days (and nights) so don't feel much<br>pressure about your 10 minutes presentation. It is important but it will<br>be good no matter what.<br><br>-- <br>Quim Gil<br>marketing manager,
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