[Board] Next Board meeting Oct 6. (2011-10-06)

[Michael P. Gerlek]

I'm very much in favor of voice-based meetings -- the bandwidth of IRC is
just too low to be effective.

-mpg


> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:39 AM
> To: board at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Board] Next Board meeting Oct 6. (2011-10-06)
> 
> For what it's worth, I specifically did not mention Skype.  More
> background: having just went through FOSS4G planning with weekly phone
> calls (yes phone, not skype...but Google Voice comes in very handy here) I
> was able to feel very connected to the rest of the committee, even though
> for a year I never met most of the committee until the first day of
> workshops!
> 
> So, that's why I'd like the same for the OSGeo Board - not just a detached
IRC
> meeting (believe me I have enough of those too).
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 11-09-22 1:29 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> > Hi Arnulf,
> >
> > Glad you mentioned phone vs IRC. Myself I wonder if this new Board is
> > interested in using phone instead of IRC (although I live on IRC, I
> > find IRC meetings are difficult to control, therefore last much
> > longer). With phone I believe we can keep the meeting to one hour and
> > still hit all of the agenda items, plus also feel a little more
> > connected to the rest of the Board members.
> >
> > I just want to put this option out there for the new Board.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -jeff
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11-09-22 1:21 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >> we are surely all somewhat overwhelmed with latest events - but for
> >> myself I can also say that I am energized and look forward to making
> >> the required changes to bring OSGeo forward.
> >>
> >> Our next regular board meeting is scheduled for Oct. 6., find the
> >> agenda here and please help to populate it with your items:
> >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2011-10-06
> >>
> >> Please let this list know if you *cannot* make it at this date. It is
> >> not fixed - if another time or date can help board members to better
> >> participate we should consider changing.
> >>
> >> It may be a good idea to complement this one hour meeting on IRC with
> >> a telephone call to get up to speed on larger issues. What do you
think?
> >> If you think this is useful please suggest a time and date. It will
> >> necessary to have a test call up front because the user experience of
> >> our Skype calls in general was pretty miserable. If this does not
> >> work we can again try to use a conference call provider (but if we
> >> then all use Skype to call in the conf call provider it is a somewhat
> >> useless exercise). Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Arnulf
> >>
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