[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Next community meeting is 14 September 2012, 17:00 UTC+0

[Ben Shum]

Historically, the Community Meeting grew out of a need to disseminate 
information from various groups and committees to a larger group of 
people and it started as an extension of the Developer meetings 
conducted regularly in IRC.  There was some discussion in those early 
days about the format for community meetings and whether we should 
continue to use IRC or find alternatives.  I don't recall anybody really 
suggesting or volunteering alternatives at the time, but it never hurts 
to refresh the discussion.  So I'm inclined to support trying new 
approaches too.

Some logistical concerns with conference call though:

Looking back and doing a quick head count of people who identified 
themselves during the last community meetings, we tend to have at least 
12-20 participants (possibly more lurking).  Are individuals or 
organizations in the community able to volunteer access to a conference 
call line large enough to support that many (or more) simultaneous 
participants?  Do we have to use some sort of professional meeting tool 
like WebEx or similar?  Will the volunteers who setup the conference 
line be tasked to also coordinate the running of the meeting, to avoid 
having everybody talking at once, etc.?

I think Thomas also raises a good point about participant cross 
communication issues with phone/IRC.  So bridging that gap would need to 
be necessary as well.

-- Ben

On 08/30/2012 12:24 PM, Thomas Berezansky wrote:
> I question how those who can't participate via IRC (assuming that is a 
> goal here) and those who can't participate via the conference call 
> will interact with each other.
>
> Not that I am sure I would be attending either way, but I am much more 
> likely to participate in IRC than on a conference call.
>
> Thomas Berezansky
> Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
>
>
> Quoting Jason Etheridge <jason at esilibrary.com>:
>
>>> Any objections to having this meeting on conference call in parallel 
>>> to the IRC?
>>
>> I don't like the idea, but I don't necessarily object.  Worth trying
>> new things and learning from the results. :)
>>
>> -- 
>> Jason Etheridge
>>  | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
>>  | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>>  | email:  jason at esilibrary.com
>>  | web:  http://www.esilibrary.com
>>  | Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &
>> http://evergreen-ils.org
>>
>
>
>

-- 
Benjamin Shum
Open Source Software Coordinator
Bibliomation, Inc.
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