[RFC] Moving project planning meeting to IRC

[shu ming]

On 2011-10-13 6:43, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:04:19AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
>
>> The only other downsides I've heard voiced (having just gone through
>> this debate elsewhere):
>>
>> 1) typing == slow for some folks
>> 2) inevitible overlapping conversations
>> 3) more consuming than phone (harder to do 2 things at once)
>> 4) can't do from airport/kitchen/car/...
> Yep, totally understand where this list comes from, I've been there
> before.
>
> The place I draw the line is, a tightly integrated team - such as a
> developer team at a company - has a higher importance on certain
> factors that make the above objections more relevant:
>
> * It's your team meeting at your JOB, you make the meeting no matter
>    what. So it's key to have it highly available (call from anywhere)
>    v. text-based.
>
> * The rest of your company may not be familiar with the pace of open
>    source development - it doesn't respond to "NOW!" the way a job-role
>    does, the urgency to be in meetings isn't the same, etc.
>
> * And so forth.
>
> Where it comes to open community meetings, we are plainly just more
> flexible to be as accommodating as possible. So this means we do IRC
> in plain text because:
>
> * It's easier for non-native English speakers.
>
> * In fact, some people can read English but not understand all the
>    spoken accents.
>
> * It's translatable.
>
> * It's accessible - if you can't hear a phone conversation, you can
>    read an IRC log. If you can't read a log, you can use a
>    screenreader.
>
> * It's searchable when the log is archived.

+1 and add one moe
* It is easy to know who is talking in the meeting by IRC ID, especially 
for a  meeting with many attendees.

>
> Once a project is out in the open and WANTS participation, that's when
> the phone calls stop and IRC+email begins.
>
> - Karsten
>
>
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