<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Quim Gil wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><br>ext Dave Neary wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I think we should have some kind of agenda, previously published, with<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">few points (to make it practical).<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Pending topics should go to wiki or similar, to be discussed in next<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">meetings, i.e.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">And a second channel for anyone to talk to, with the "main" meeting<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">channel moderated (so that questions get asked one by one).<br></blockquote><br>It is good to have 2 channels but I don't think the second one needs to<br>be moderated, if the topic being discussed is clear i.e. "Discussing<br>[topic] with [Nokia guy/team]".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Seems to me like #maemo and #maemo-meeting would work out just fine. #maemo never really gets going TOO hard and the people who who make most of the noise in #maemo are going to be in #maemo-meeting, anyway. . . .</div><br><blockquote type="cite">In most cases we don't want a pure Q&A (like the first chat ended up<br>being) but a discussion on the stuff that really matters. Doing this<br>fluently with moderation in between is harder. If the second room gets<br>also too crowded with noise then we can always move to the moderation model.<br></blockquote></div><br><div>I'm not convinced moderation is called for at this point. It introduces too much of a barrier to entry for a lot of people and takes away the spur-of-the-moment discussion aspect of things (which is implied by the meeting part of #maemo-meeting ;)). I think we can solve this with less drastic means for the second session (keep in mind, this <i>was</i> the first session, so everybody was kinda testing the waters and getting a feel for how things should operate—bumps are to be expected).</div><div><br></div><div>Lack of structure was more of an issue this time around than any . . . <i>over enthusiasm</i> from attendees, so setting out a topic and agenda for the meeting, making sure people stay on topic, and keep the chatter to #maemo (or #maemo-meeting-chatter or whatever) will go a long way towards keeping things organized without resorting to fun-killing moderation. ;)</div></body></html>