[Lugcomms] Fwd: LC AGM @ LCA

[David Tangye]

Hi all,

My thoughts having 'attended' the IRQ session:

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:01 AM, GPCS - Grant Petch <gpcs at ozemail.com.au>wrote:

> Hi Everyone:
> ... Also an AGM would be a great way for those of us who
> don't always (or in my case haven't) get the chance to jump online during
> the IRC meetings, as this would give us the opportunity of having our
> contribution / ideas heard as well as getting some updates on what is going
> on in lugcomms.
>
I am not sure why you hold an IRC 'meeting' at all. IRC introduces the
problem of people needing to all do it at the same time, which in my opinion
is totally pointless. Some of you have already found it impossible to
attend, and others probably found it inconvenient.

Email lists, like this one, work much better for sorting out serious
organisational issues. Everyone gets to read it when they can, and can stop
and think before firing off a reply, so quality will improve: ie
signal/noise ratio will improve.

I look at it this way: Work = email, Play = face to face (ie social,
although good ideas and therefore 'work' can come out of there too.)

On a separate note, it is great that someone is recording word for word what
> is actually being said at the lugcomms IRC online meetings, like the one
> held earlier on this evening,

All IRC software that I have used can have logging turned on. So everyone
ought to be able to read their logs afterwards.


> however I would like to put an idea forward to
> help make this a more useful tool, and that is can this in anyway shape or
> form, be compacted down into a proper set of minutes with some listed
> points
> so that it is easier for people to get information from it, especially for
> those of us who don't always get online for the IRC meetings.

I agree that minutes of face to face meetings have value as the way to
capture and summarise proceedings, as long as they are done accurately.
However the source written words of IRC sessions, ie the logs, are the best
authoritive record of proceedings, as they are a true record. Minutes and
summaries, like any report, are as perceived by the reporter, so can easily
suffer some degree of variance from a true record.

The simplest most effective and efficient way to conduct most LA and
LUGCOMMS business is via email lists.

Cheers
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