[FOSS4G2016] general note: shake up of LOC

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Jeff,

thanks for that motion. I think a weekly meeting makes sense.

I will write a seperate invitation to the list.

Till



Am 2015-10-19 15:35, schrieb Jeff McKenna:
> I should also mention that another benefit of using the #foss4g IRC
> channel, is that your weekly meeting will be logged automatically.
> See examples at http://irclogs.geoapt.com/foss4g/  (mostly the logs
> are completely empty now, because no one is using the channel lately)
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2015-10-19 10:31 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Yes at some point soon you should move to a weekly meeting.  I have 
>> seen
>> some past committee teams use IRC successfully (there is the #foss4g
>> channel on freenode that is mostly empty, awaiting your use), and 
>> also
>> phone conference calls using audio (it could be a weekly hangout 
>> with
>> audio).  But personally I find that IRC meetings are much more "get 
>> down
>> to business" than the audio calls ("hi how was your weekend?"), so I
>> have a preference for the IRC text chat (or Slack, but that seems to
>> offend some Open Source "oldtimers" so IRC it is, ha).
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2015-10-19 5:41 AM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>>> Hi LOC!
>>>
>>> This is a really honest eamil but unfortunately it looks like, that 
>>> it
>>> is necessary.
>>> I know, that everybody involved in LOC also has a normal job and I 
>>> also
>>> understand that not everybody of you can act like I am doing.
>>>
>>> But...we are now in a situation where I really must **rely** on
>>> everybody's contributions!
>>>
>>> I think that at least it should be possible to everyone, who gets 
>>> asked
>>> about s.th. which is in your personal area of responsibility to 
>>> reply to
>>> a question in a short email.
>>> And if the reply is: "Sorry, I am short in time for now, but I will 
>>> work
>>> on this on [...]" - that's also fair and nobody will be angry about 
>>> that.
>>>
>>> !!!The worst thing you can do (to all other people involved in LOC) 
>>> is
>>> to do/write/say nothing!!!
>>>
>>> Please note, that we are far away from having too much time for
>>> organization and I really would like to get us all in motion for 
>>> the
>>> upcoming tasks!
>>> The most urgent things are:
>>>
>>> -> add more info on the homepage (@Anja, Carmen asked last week 
>>> about
>>> having a meeting this week?)
>>> -> fix sponsorship and exhibition packages (@Arnulf and @Hinrich: 
>>> still
>>> no reply from you)
>>> -> fix our contract with WCCB (wrote a question on this a few 
>>> minutes
>>> ago)
>>> -> fix of our timetable and with that all the upcoming tasks
>>>
>>> So please, please let us get these things in motion!
>>>
>>> Maybe having a hangout or IRC chat once a week would make 
>>> communication
>>> easier? Our monthly meetings are good but mainly restricted to 
>>> people
>>> located in Bonn
>>> What do you think? Any other ideas on that?
>>>
>>>
>>> So far, Till
>>>
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