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

[Peter Batty]

I don't have much experience with IRC meetings but as Jeff said, we did
weekly voice calls with the FOSS4G committee and found that worked pretty
well. But I'm flexible, happy with whatever the consensus is.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com> wrote:

> I'm very much in favor of voice-based meetings -- the bandwidth of IRC is
> just too low to be effective.
>
> -mpg
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:board-
> > 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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