Future direction of Ubuntu Documentation/Meeting times

[Matt Galvin]

On 7/29/05, Sean Wheller <sean at inwords.co.za> wrote:
> On Friday 29 July 2005 05:39, Robert Stoffers wrote:
> > Thought was given to people of different time zones, this is a two way
> > thing however. I'm not suggesting the times have to change, just the day
> > is enough. I myself am in +10, which makes 1400UTC midnight Thursday and
> > 2200UTC 8am Friday. The problem with this is that people (such as
> > myself) have to work on Friday day, changing the meeting to Friday would
> > ensure everyone who needs to can sleep on Saturday.
> 
> Occasional meetings are fine. BUt people should rather resort to discussing
> issues on the list as apposed to bringing everyting to a meeting. There is a
> tendancy on the team to move everything discussed and not agreed on IRC to a
> meeting for decision. This is not good. Items cannot/should not be discussed
> and decided in meetings unless absolutely needed.

The more we use the list as a communications medium the better, IMHO.
That is what it is here for. For example I know Jerome and myself are
exactly 12 hours apart from each other and we are often not able to be
around at a time that is good for both of us. Meetings are great and
all if we can make them but i think there is enough proof that
everyone making the meetings is very difficult at times. Using the
list is something I personally prefer since we can each respond when
we have time. Although I know most of you realize this, I just wanted
to emphasize that this teams members are in enough different time
zones to make meetings more difficult for us compared to many of the
other teams.

Matt