Re: Next meeting Wednesday 25 of June 16:00 UTC

[Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Fabiana Simões
<fabianapsimoes gmail com> wrote:
> On 21 June 2014 12:44, Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 11:37 +0002, Bastian Hougaard wrote:
> > > What is the reason behind putting the meeting at 16:00 UTC instead of
> > > the default time of 15:00 UTC? Or is 16:00 UTC the new default time?
> > > If so I think Engagement/TeamMeetings should be updated. [1]
> > I thought that 15:00UTC maybe was a little bit to early for our US
> > friends. I have removed the section that mention a specific time for
> > now.
>
> AFAIK, last meeting at 15h UTC wasn't super crowded. Maybe we should
> try and have 2 alternating bi-weekly meetings at different times? One
> at 15h UTC, and one at maybe 18/19h UTC. Maybe Andrea Veri could set
> up some automated email reminders to this list.
Not sure about this, but maybe.

> I also think we need to find a way to better collaborate
> asynchronously. It seems to me we're not terribly great at using the
> Wiki as a tool to leverage discussion, and most of us aren't available
> at IRC often enough.
I like etherpads (they are widely used within the Mozilla project), we have
a instance [1]. For a few meetings we have tried to use etherpad for
agenda+notes [2], while not that many people have attended these
meetings.

> I'd love to try other tools for collaboration, as developers use
> Bugzilla. I use P2 at work, and I *really* like it. Maybe it's
> something we could try for a month or two:
> http://p2theme.com/
I would preferably want to wait so pepole have the chance to use and
provide feedback on etherpad before we consider testing new tools.


1 https://etherpad.gnome.org/
2 https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/TeamMeetings

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-mvh Oliver Propst