Cyrus Daboo wrote: > Hi Peter, > > --On July 30, 2007 2:11:38 PM -0600 Peter Saint-Andre > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Further, in-person meetings are so second-millennium. How about greater >> use of text chat, voice chat, and video chat for interim meetings? Are >> three in-person meetings a year really necessary if we make use of >> collaborative technologies that have become common in the last 15 years? > > All that will do is shift the discussion from "where shall we hold the > meeting" to "what time/timezone shall we have for our conf call". Given > that we have people participating from across the globe, trying to > arrange a time that is acceptable for all participants will be just as > hard as trying to find a meeting venue acceptable to all.
You can hold multiple meetings at different times. Not ideal, but there has to be a better way to get all interested parties in a discussion at the same time than forcing them to burn jet fuel. I'm not opposed to in-person meetings -- there's nothing like a good Bar BOF. I just think that we could more productively leverage the real-time collaboration technologies we've developed to make progress between IRL meetings, and perhaps run more focused IRL meetings as a result. > Unfortunately we don't have scheduling tools that will help resolve > issues like that (or at least make it easier than a multiple party email > exchange/negotiation) - but some of us are working on that! Keep up the good work! Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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