ubuntu-us-nj Meeting: Wednesday, September 19th, 9pm - 10pm

[Christopher Ingram]

On Sep 19, 2007, at 9:48 AM, David A. Harding wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:43:53PM -0400, Joseph Terranova wrote:
>> Let's try to talk about this on the list. This doesn't particularly
>> seem like a meeting topic.
>
> I agree with Mr. Terranova.  This is a discussion which has no natural
> ending point; it is irresolvable, and thus does not make for a good
> discussion in a time-limited medium, like the IRC meeting.

For detailed discussions touching on philosophy and such, of course.  
Like you say, it would never end. However the first bits could be  
done well via IRC.

> I think the best place for this kind of discussion is a high-bandwidth
> medium -- for example, talking in person (voice + body language = high
> bandwidth).

Yeah, but that's likely not in the cards for me.

> We'll probably just become frustrated trying to convey our deep  
> feelings
> about the issues through the low-bandwidth mediums of email or IRC,  
> but
> if you want to try discussing this on IRC, I will stick around after
> tonight's meeting.

Avoiding deep feelings regardless of how the discussions is  
facilitated would probably be a good idea.

> If you want to talk in person, please come to the Farmers Market this
> Saturday. If we aren't busy, we can talk while there. If we are  
> busy, we
> can talk afterwards.

There is almost no chance of that happening, though I encourage  
whoever is there to talk about it.

BTW, I wasn't serious about the forking thing.