Hi, On 09/18/2012 01:48 PM, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
Results usually vary, but it might be worth trying to have meetings; there are other activities which don't necessarily require the presence of the folks in Israel. I've found that using holiday-ish times is usually good for things like brainstorming, finding easy fix-it items, etc; "top 5 wiki pages that need love," analyzing data/statistics on downloads from a new release.
That's a good point - we would need a different agenda to focus the meetings and help people decide if they should be there.
These things are always difficult; it's less exciting to have not as many folks in the meeting, and sometimes not incredibly productive, but I always feel like I'm somehow discouraging/disenfranchising people in other regions when cancelling meetings because of local holidays. I usually try to just keep the pulse going and try and bring in other folks to do some fun stuff that may be more enticing than usual :)
Yes, fair point - it's the wrong thing to do, and the wrong message to send. Let's maintain it - we can certainly have anopther meeting re the website redesign (Garrett's been working on a MediaWiki theme for a couple of weeks now) and release management, as you suggest. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards, Red Hat Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13