Weekly Meeting Format and day/time poll

[Chris Johnston]

Greetings,

Is a meeting even needed at this point in time? Are there enough things
that get discussed with enough people at the meeting to discuss them, or
should discussions just take place on the ML where people have more time
to reply? Another option would be to just hold a monthly meeting and
hopefully more people could attend, and hold most discussion through the ML.

If a meeting is needed, my fear with trying to do meetings using
hangouts is that you will quickly meet the limits set by Google on
hangouts. I would say that IRC is probably the best way to hold meetings.

I think that using Hangouts on Air would be a great idea for doing
training and such where a couple of people could 'run' a training
session on how to do something, which people could watch live, and it
will be available later for others who are unable to 'attend' the
training live.

cJ

On 11/08/2012 12:03 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> I would like to discuss and hear options for how we meet as a community
> in "realtime". Currently we're using IRC for this, but I know the timing
> and format doesn't work out well for many of you. Suggestions have been
> made to use streamed google hangouts in conjunction with IRC, or
> something else. I'd like your feedback on our format for this in
> addition to voicing your opinion on when we should meet by voting in
> this poll. We had a poll last cycle and ended up at a current day and
> time, but few who voted have found the time convenient :-) Don't forget
> to select your timezone before filling in the times! In addition what
> does everyone think about reducing the time to 30 mins? I'd like to
> respect everyone's time and make it easier to attend, so I propose we
> only plan to meet for 30 mins.
> 
> http://whenisgood.net/rgzmaa9
> 
> Nicholas