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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Just wanted to quickly weigh in with my thoughts on this important
>> > topic. I
>> > very much valued the face-to-face interaction that came from the
>> > mid-cycle
>> > meetup in Beaverton (it was the only one I've ever been to).
>> >
>> > That said, I do not believe it should be a requirement that cores make
>> > it to
>> > the face-to-face meetings in-person. A number of folks have brought up
>> > very
>> > valid concerns about personal/family time, travel costs and burnout.
>>
>> I'm not proposing they be a requirement. I am proposing that they be
>> strongly encouraged.
>>
>> > I believe that the issue raised about furthering the divide between core
>> > and
>> > non-core folks is actually the biggest reason I don't support a mandate
>> > to
>> > have cores at the face-to-face meetings, and I think we should make our
>> > best
>> > efforts to support quality virtual meetings that can be done on a more
>> > frequent basis than the face-to-face meetings that would be optional.
>>
>> I am all for online meetings, but we don't have a practical way to do
>> them at the moment apart from IRC. Until someone has a concrete
>> proposal that's been shown to work, I feel its a straw man argument.
>
> What about making it easier for remote people to participate at the
> mid-cycle meetups? Set up some microphones and a Google hangout?  At least
> that way attending the mid-cycle is not all or nothing.
>
> We did something like this last cycle (IIRC we didn't have enough mics) and
> it worked pretty well.

As I said, I'm open to experimenting, but I need someone other than me
to own that. I'm simply too busy to get to it.

However, I don't think we should throw away the thing that works for
best for us now, until we have a working replacement. I'm very much in
favour of work being done on a replacement though.

Michael

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