> When it comes to interpersonal communication, online chat is a blunt > instrument inferior to using voice for a number of natural reasons. As far as > transparency of web team meetings, that's a different topic altogether, not > sure why you bring it up here. The web team conference call is open to > anyone in the community and if you feel like I miss something in the meeting > notes, you have the opportunity to comment when I pass them around prior to > sending to the web list, which is open to the public.
There's also a cultural component here. Open source communities are online communities and tend to use the mediums found there (but yay all the new stuff like VOIP and Google Hangouts!). But we also have a set of folks who are used to conference calls and face to face meetings in their daily professional lives. Communities tend to be conservative, so both groups are going to want to use what works for them. If we had a group of folks who lived mostly in the twitterverse, that is what they would advocate. What mixing and melding we do have between mediums happens naturally. I don't expect a forced melding of IRC + phone to go very well, but I'm willing to let folks try it rather than argue about it. -- Jason Etheridge | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: ja...@esilibrary.com | web: http://www.esilibrary.com | Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org & http://evergreen-ils.org
