Hi,

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> wrote:
>  Le 2010-10-12 07:20, Graham Lauder a écrit :
>>
>> On Tuesday 12 Oct 2010 23:54:03 Florian Effenberger wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just created a Doodle poll - let me know when you are best available
>>> for a phone conference. ;-)
>>>
>>> http://www.doodle.com/uiidvmmxcp53r4xs
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Florian
>>
>> I must admit I find these things incredibly frustrating, They're always at
>> a
>> bloody awful time and voting is a waste of time because it just means it
>> always suits the Europeans, I have to do it via IRC because the phone-in
>> is
>> limited in the number of countries and nothing in NZ, so it's a waste of
>> time
>> me being there.
>>
>> The problem then is that those of us who can't make it end up on the outer
>> and
>> we immediately have a two tier system within the project, those who can
>> have
>> input (Because of time zone, phone setups etc) and those who can only
>> listen
>> but are denied any significant input because everything has been done an
>> dusted at speech speed and by the time we get to hear it (after having to
>> download the sound file over very slow dialup) it's all ancient history
>> and
>> over with.
>>
>> I would like us to stick to using maillists or even IMs  it may be slower
>> but
>> at least it's inclusive.
>>
>> GL
>>
> I also agree with Graham,
>
> I am in Canada with approx. 5-6 hours behind European time (opposite of
> Graham). Mailists and IM would be my preferred way of communication if
> possible. Unfortunate as it may sound the advantages of having an
> international team are immense, the drawback is realtime meetings. Uh ...
> unless someone can fly us to a common destination for an afternoon.  Anyone?
> LOL. You are all welcome to come to my house, and, it's Octoberfest here
> too! (Waterloo Canada)

Didn't try it yet, but I think of using skype for joining, did you
already try it? I know it's not always reliable but at least, it
allows us to join. Florian, will you provide a skype access?

Kind regards
Sophie

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