On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Peter Miller <peter.mil...@itoworld.com>wrote:
> > On 18 Aug 2009, at 09:17, Nick Black wrote: > > John, > I said: > > so if you can't make it but would like to, please add your name to the > wiki so we can have a second call at a better time. > > No-one is trying to exclude you - especially not the people who are trying > set up local groups and make OSM and the OSM-F more inclusive :-) If there > are people who want to take the call at a Australia/Asia/New Zealand > friendly time, I've said that I'll go out of my way to make it and I'm sure > some of the other Local Chapters volunteers will as well. > > Please add your details to the wiki page, suggest some friendly times and > we'll set up a call. Alternatively, organize the call yourself at any time > you want and give you feedback to the Local Chapters group > lo...@osmfoundation.org. > > > Would a 'local chapters' email list not be a great way to include people > from all around the world on different time zones for to include those for > whom English is a second language? A combination of email list and wiki > allow people to work at a time of there convenience, gives people time to > read and write at their own speed (using translation tools if necessary) and > there is a full history of the discussion. > Sounds good. Mike - could you do the honours and set up a local chapters mailing list please? > > I suggest that conference calls and IRC are only used for those issues > where email is not working or getting to an resolution on a difficult > subject. > > Regards, > > > > Peter > > > -- > Nick > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:40 AM, John Smith <delta_foxt...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> --- On Tue, 18/8/09, Nick Black <nickbla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Chapters meetings. You can find minutes here [1] along >> > with information about the next meeting. >> >> There seems to be more questions posed than answers in the minutes... >> >> > The next meeting is proposed for the 24th August >> > at 18.00 - 19:30 BST. I know this is not great for a lot >> > of people who are in non-BST friendly time zones, so if you >> > can't make it but would like to, please add your name to >> > the wiki so we can have a second call at a better >> > time. >> >> I did, but it didn't seem to make a difference, also there is at least one >> other person that would like to have been in the conference but wasn't an >> insomniac last night either. >> >> > One of the goals of the meeting next week will >> > be to set a timetable for getting local chapters set up, >> > which will be largely dependent on how much we all agree / >> > disagree in the call. Until then, please read over the >> > Local Chapters wiki page and add as many comments or ideas >> > as possible, so we can discuss next week. >> >> It's a bit exclusionary to state that and then already acknowledge that >> people can't make it due to time of day. >> >> >> >> > > > -- > -- > Nick Black > twitter.com/nick_b > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > -- -- Nick Black twitter.com/nick_b
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