[FC-discuss] Meetings, Improving Communication (Was: "Website improvements: Wiki mostly")

[Robert Ochshorn]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:32:49AM -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> The web team (generally) has weekly meetings Sunday afternoons. Lately 
> we've all been too busy to actually have them, but we're supposed to.

Since there is probably overlap between persons and topics of interest
to the web team and to the chapters, it makes sense to me for the two
meetings to be back-to-back. I don't know when they were before, but
say Chapter Leaders met Sundays 2-3, Web Team could meet 3-4 (or the
other way around).


> I try to keep my eyes on as many teams as possible, and I think the web 
> team is the only one with a schedule! (And we're breaking it, but I don't 
> feel too bad about that at the moment.)
> 
> With the wide availability of VoIP software and cell phones, maybe a voice 
> call would be nice for chapter leaders. (Can I hang out on those calls 
> too, like before?)


It makes perfect sense for you to keep up with and sit in on as many
meetings as you can bear! An example of a web team question with
implications for chapter leaders is a question I just posed on
Launchpad investigating the feasibility of merging chapter wikis into
the national one (to improve cross-chapter communication), for which
we need non-technical feedback:

  https://answers.launchpad.net/web/+question/57649

VoIP makes sense eventually, but I don't think figuring out a cell
phone conference call is worth blocking commencement of meetings. We
should start on IRC until someone figures out the best way to have a
call-in meeting.

Also, it may not be necessary for full attendance every week. These
could be "open hours," except for, say, the first Sunday of every
month, or when an agenda is proposed to discuss at .


Best,
Robert