Re: Marketing Meeting next week.

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

On 03/16/2012 06:26 PM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
> I've been quite happy with the inclusion of a meetbot during IRC
> meetings.  It totally automates the minutes, action items, info points
> and logging in a way I can't see video conferencing achieve.

Personally I think meetbot minutes can't hold a candle to human 
written/typed minutes. Most meetbot minutes look like this to me:

Meeting started by nick1 at 16:00:46 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary:

* Topic 1 (nick1, 16:05:03)
 *  url (nick2, 16:23:22)
 *  ACTION: Update proposal (nick1, 16:35:19)

* Topic 2 (nick1, 16:38:01)
 * ACTION: Request comments on mailing list (nick2, 16:58:12)

Meeting ended at 16:59:30 UTC (full logs).

Basically useless - and you need to read the full logs to get any 
information. MeetBot automates nothing - it requires someone responsible 
for minutes during the meeting.

Also, meetings that aren't linear, but where someone wants to add 
something at the end of a meeting related to something earlier, are a 
mess in meetbot. Unstacking actions, or changing stuff that is already 
minuted, is really hard. But we do this with written minutes all the time.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
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