<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Frank,<div><br></div><div>Is some sort of Google Voice/ Conference thing that we might be able to use that could keep you at your desk with your computer?</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Jeff McKenna<br><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Arnulf,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Glad you mentioned phone vs IRC. Myself I wonder if this new Board is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">interested in using phone instead of IRC (although I live on IRC, I find IRC<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">meetings are difficult to control, therefore last much longer). With phone I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">believe we can keep the meeting to one hour and still hit all of the agenda<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">items, plus also feel a little more connected to the rest of the Board<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">members.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I just want to put this option out there for the new Board.<br></blockquote><br>Folks,<br><br>For what it's worth, I'm not allowed to use Skype at work, and when<br>I'm on the phone I have to go stand outside the building without<br>computer access. IRC works much better for me. But of course,<br>I'll work within the needs of the majority.<br><br>I would add we have fairly often had devastatingly bad<br>sound quality on calls to the point of near incomprehensibility.<br><br>On a related point I'd rather have some longer "working"<br>board meetings instead of being strict about one hour.<br>I can spare a little more time for this compared to jetting<br>somewhere for a F2F.<br><br>Best regards,<br>-- <br>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</a><br>and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer<br>_______________________________________________<br>Board mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>