OSGeo-Board Board meeting - pphoen and IRC

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Mon Feb 13 13:28:28 PST 2006


On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:12:32PM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Gary Lang wrote:
> >We need to use the phone and IRC as we did in Chicago. IRD by itself 
> >won?t do it for this sort of discussion. IRC is very low bandwidth, and 
> >these are meaty subjects, where IRC is good for summation but not 
> >presentation. Rich would have to take 10 minutes to type a paragraph he 
> >could speak in a few minutes, for example.
> >
> >We can make it an open line again.
> 
> Gary,
> 
> Phone is fine with me, backed by IRC.  I have updated the wiki page
> accordingly.
> 
> I do hope we can reach a point when things are more settled that we
> can handle things by IRC only.  I do know substantial projects, and
> organizations that hold binding board meetings by IRC.

+1 for Skype for non US people
I think they'd charge me > 1 Euro per minute for phone calls in US.

If skype is not accepted/feasible I will join you in IRC only.

Hope that's ok,

 Markus





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