<div dir="ltr">I agree with Anish, we need some buffer time between the two meetings. As much as I like all y'all, I'd prefer to not have to deal with two meetings in one day.<div><br></div><div>Our Thursday Skype calls are useful, but IRC meetings are a totally different animal when it comes to this stuff. Specifically getting into the "nitty gritty details." When we're speaking to each other by voice, I have to pay constant attention to what people are saying vocally and therefore can't go google something real quick or examine a config file. Maybe it's just me, but when it comes to paying attention to phone calls, I can't do much else at the same time and process everything the way I need to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There's a lot more latitude in IRC meetings because I can easily scan the scrollback if my attention was diverted for a couple of minutes while testing a change, looking at something, etc.</div><div>
<br></div><div>To generalize very heavily: Skype is better for general things (and it's great to hear everyone's voices, of course), but IRC is better for work sessions. At least in my experience.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Bottom line, I don't feel like I need to have an XSCE booted up during Skype calls. But I would during an IRC meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting methods are two totally different frames of mind for me and I think they belong on different days.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anna</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Anish Mangal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anish@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">anish@activitycentral.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think Tuesday is good. It will help allow some buffer time between the two meetings. If it doesn't work out well, we'll shift to Thursday after a couple of weeks. <div>
<br></div><div>Okay?</div><div>
<br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Anish</div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'd much prefer Thursday on the same day as our voice meetings. Or was this separated by sev days for a reason?<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Anish Mangal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anish@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">anish@activitycentral.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Okay, so based on the responses I've received so far, all weekdays, and 1600 UTC seems like the best time slot. So I'll propose we hold weekly XSCE meetings on<div>
<br></div><div>Tuesdays, 1600 UTC / 0900 PDT / 1100 CDT / 1200 EDT </div>
<div><br></div><div>If somebody has an issue with that time, please speak up :)</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Anish</div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Anish Mangal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anish@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">anish@activitycentral.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Yes exactly.</p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 31, 2013 7:22 PM, "Kevin Mark" <<a href="mailto:kevin.mark@verizon.net" target="_blank">kevin.mark@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:56:29PM -0700, Anish Mangal wrote:<br>
> +1<br>
> We could use the services of xsceBOT :-)<br>
> (uhps... sent the previous email from the wrong from: address :/ - gmail compose<br>
> sucks)<br>
<br>
I know some Fedora folks who used a meeting bot (based on supybot). You give a<br>
command like 'start meeting' and 'end meeting', it logs the meeting and sends<br>
it as an email or something and you can add bullet points.<br>
-k<br>
<br>
> <br>
><br>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Anna <[1]<a href="mailto:aschoolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">aschoolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> I know the policy for #schoolserver is that logs aren't kept, but in the interest<br>
> of transparency, perhaps we could log "official" #schoolserver meetings. One of<br>
> the nice things about meeting on IRC vs. Skype is that IRC meetings axiomatically<br>
> have transcripts.<br>
> Anna<br>
><br>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Anish Mangal <[2]<a href="mailto:anish@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">anish@activitycentral.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hi,<br>
> For some time now, people (including me) have been mulling the idea of having<br>
> XSCE development meetings on IRC in complement to the weekly skype calls.<br>
> Conversation on the #schoolserver channel has gradually been growing too. I<br>
> would like to propose that we start holding weekly regular planning and scrum<br>
> meetings to discuss plans and ideas around XSCE development. I don't have any<br>
> structure in mind yet, so we can largely go off where the community wants it<br>
> to.<br>
> I don't what's the best time for anybody who might be interested, so I created<br>
> this: [3]<a href="http://whenisgood.net/q72f3wf" target="_blank">http://whenisgood.net/q72f3wf</a><br>
> Thoughts?<br>
> Best,<br>
> Anish<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Anish | [4]<a href="mailto:anish@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">anish@sugarlabs.org</a><br>
><br>
> References<br>
><br>
> Visible links<br>
> 1. mailto:<a href="mailto:aschoolf@gmail.com" target="_blank">aschoolf@gmail.com</a><br>
> 2. mailto:<a href="mailto:anish@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">anish@activitycentral.com</a><br>
> 3. <a href="http://whenisgood.net/q72f3wf" target="_blank">http://whenisgood.net/q72f3wf</a><br>
> 4. mailto:<a href="mailto:anish@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">anish@sugarlabs.org</a><br>
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