proposed meeting Apr 11

[Puneet Kishor]

All,

I am proposing a meeting for Tue Apr 11, at 11p GMT-6 (figure out your 
respective times). This will be an "getting our feet wet" meeting. 
Markus won't be around, and I am not sure who else will not be around. 
But, some of us have confirmed our availability.

We will use IRC. Markus has put together a helpful cheat-sheet at 
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/GRASS/HowToIRC. I myself am 
new to IRC, but have installed Chatzilla, and that seems to work quite 
well. There are a few other open source IRC clients out there. Just 
Google for 'em.

The agenda of the meeting will be --

1. To introduce ourselves and our interests (sort of a repeat of what 
is there on the wiki already, but it will help get everyone know each 
other).

2. To try and identify a few key threads in the variety of interests 
that we want to pursue.

3. To attempt to aggregate ourselves into sub-committees that would 
pursue the various threads separately. We can't all be everything to 
everyone, so we have to break up our goals into sub-goals, and try and 
accomplish those -- from higher research, to curriculum, to 
pre-packaged tools, to evangelism... lets begin to identify them 
consensually.

If too many of us are not going to be available Apr 11, I will be happy 
to reconvene after Apr 17 when Markus is also around, else lets get 
things started sooner rather than later.

One caveat -- I too will be on the road (am already on the road -- hate 
it). In fact, Apr 11, I will be in a hotel where I know the internet 
works quite well. In all probability everything will be fine from my 
side, but in case something goes kaput, you know I will blame the 
hotel.


--
Puneet Kishor
www.eidesis.org/punkish/