Hi Noah... On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > My apologies, Mohammad.
1st of all no apologies are needed at Noah :), your concern was totally correct and actually it shows the sense of awareness about open communities :) > > Just getting up to speed on CloudStack. (My first time being a mentor.) I > shall take care to read the older threads. :) It would be nice for sure, but I know it is sometimes hard to dig into old e-mails more specifically for a very active community like ACS. But again don't feel reluctant at all sending any concerns, ideas, comments, feedback, etc... . My point was that this kind of concerns like the ones you already expressed were already discussed and hence there is no reason to re-discuss them again :) Cya around in the mailing lists :) > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Noah... >> >> Please read my feedback inline >> >> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> > How can people who do not use IRC participate in these meetings, or the >> > discussions held at them? >> > >> > It is important that community discussions take place on the mailing >> list. >> > And where they take place off the mailing list, that they are summarised >> on >> > the mailing list. It is also important that people who do not use IRC are >> > able to partake in discussions. >> >> Totally agree, and again, we have already discussed that. It is >> already ASF rules and these rules have been conducted already on other >> mailing threads. >> >> But IM sometimes give better chances to discuss things in details in >> a way that might be better than having the same discussion over >> e-mail. >> >> But no decisions will/should be made with bringing them back to the >> mailing list and give all ppl involved the opportunity to give their >> opinion and participate in the decision making. >> >> > >> > One option is to hold meetings on IRC, post a summary of what was >> > discussed, and then invite people on the mailing list to continue the >> > discussion. But discussions must be copied to the mailing list, and >> people >> > must have a chance to participate. >> > >> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din < >> > [email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi... >> >> >> >> Will not be able to have a times that suits all, try to get a time >> >> that suits most of people for that time and they can attend next time, >> >> taking into account having ASF rules when it comes to off the mailing >> >> list communications. >> >> >> >> An idea I would like to propose is to have a certain list of topics >> >> (agenda) for a specific IRC meeting so different people can evaluate >> >> whether they should/shoudn't attend that meeting and hence you get >> >> only the people interested and less people means agreeing on time >> >> easier I believe. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012, at 04:21 PM, Wido den Hollander wrote: >> >> >> The reason I'm opting for 21:00 UTC is that it's after dinner. >> >> > >> >> > That's totally reasonable... but 21:00 UTC is 17:00 for folks on >> Eastern >> >> > time in the U.S., which is usually the end of the work day for folks >> who >> >> > actually clock out at 5. (Actually, it's 17:00 part of the year, 16:00 >> >> > part of the year since UTC is constant but you have daylight savings >> to >> >> > figure in for many timezones.) >> >> > >> >> >> I'd not rotate times, as that will confuse people. >> >> > >> >> > I agree with this - but if we go with a single time, it's going to be >> >> > inconvenient for someone all of the time. So in that case, I guess >> we're >> >> > going to be stuck with deciding who gets stuck with an inconvenient >> time >> >> > all the time. >> >> > -- >> >> > Joe Brockmeier >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > Twitter: @jzb >> >> > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Thanks >> >> - Mohammad Nour >> >> ---- >> >> "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep >> moving" >> >> - Albert Einstein >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > NS >> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks >> - Mohammad Nour >> ---- >> "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" >> - Albert Einstein >> > > > > -- > NS -- Thanks - Mohammad Nour ---- "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein
