On 1/19/06, Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So by its nature, chat is exclusionary. I agree that its more > expedient but it does not offer the chance for everyone to > participate. My personal view of open source is that its not about > what is most efficient. You give up certain efficiencies (like quick > turnaround times) but you gain more then you give up (synthesis of > great ideas, massive amounts of around the clock manpower.) A > transcript is helpful but its basically a record of a conversation > that took place without everyone's involvement.
Once the chat transcript is posted, people can reply to it asynchronously, like anything else. Back when we were setting up Maven, James and Wendy mentioned that had a few chats while getting everything configured. If they were chatting in a place that was automatically transcripted, some of us might know a little bit more about our infrastructure today :) This is not to say that any of us is not sharing information. We all do. It's just that our systems should be configured to *automatically* share information. A transcript-bot for chats does exactly that. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
