On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:34:30PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Dave Martin wrote: >> >> > Hi there, >> > >> > Just a thought--- is it worth experimenting with running the kernel wg >> > meeting on IRC instead of the conf call? >> > >> > Personally, I find IRC meetings _much_ more digestible than conf calls >> > (better "audio quality"; ability to scroll back when you don't hear / >> > don't understand something etc.), but I don't know whether other >> > people feel the same way -- that may just be my personal preference. >> >> I agree that the audio quality is highly variable. For ex. Paul sounded >> like those talking humanoids from old sci-fi movies. But some other >> participants were clear and crisp. Go figure. > > Connectivity issues forced me to use a cellphone, but glad to provide > some vocal variety. ;-) > >> > Comparing the dev platform group's weekly IRC meeting with the kernel >> > conf call, I've found that the IRC format works quite a lot better for >> > me, but again, that may just be my experience. >> >> Some people are just terrible at written communication. So yes, this >> might not be universally appreciated. > > I would be OK with trying it if there are no strong objections.
Well, as nico says there could be downsides ... unless your cellphone has an IRC client of course ;) I leave it up to you--- it was just a thought. Cheers ---Dave _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
