...from whenever someone sends a mail here saying that they're waiting for others to join
I think that it should start at a specific time. We know that it is always on ... just be there when you can.
My suggestion is 09:00 Greenwich Mean Time.
Ok, let's try and see!
...If each developer and user would do just one little thing on the day then that would be powerful.
...-Use IRC for real-time coordination
We would need to have good etiquette. I have stayed away from IRC because i thought that it would degenerate into a mess. Email has bad signal/noise ratio, so would not chat be worse. Anyway, i am happy to try any tool that increases our productivity.
Also Apache projects need recorded transactions, hence email and bugzilla for accountability and decision-making.
Could we stick with email for co-ordination?
I'm ok with keeping email as the main tool, and you're right about decisions and possible votes during FirstFriday, they need to take place on the lists.
Regarding IRC, it will certainly be going on at the same time too, we'll see how it works.
-Bertrand
