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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>:
> Eric Sandall wrote :
> > These meetings are designed to allow rapid communication between our
> > Developers and Team Leads so that they can hash out any issues they
> > feel they want to talk about (such as our RoadMap[1] ;)).
> I thought we already do this in #sourcemage ;)

Yes, but this will be a formal 'day' for it as well as encouraging
discussion (in theory).

> > We can still have the regular-type meeting if people want, but I (and
> > others) think this format will work better for people across timezones
> > as well as getting regular meetings going again (my bad, sorry :().
> I think having a proper meeting every 3 months and using this
> "distributed" method for the bi-monthly. Only thing is there should be
> some sort of a meeting agenda.

An agenda is a good idea. ;) The Team Leads should probably publish
their agendas for that meeting to the ML (and the wiki?) at least two
days before the meeting.

> Basicaly it should be published a day or two before on the wiki the url
> put in the topic and all devs devoiced until the points there are handled.
> Under the last point "Other stuff" the devs start speaking/asking but through
> the current active op(shown in the topic) for permission to speak. He then
> recives voice.
>
> Bassicaly it would go something like this:
> Note: CURRENTTOPIC is the topic about the person is talking about....
> topic set to: current active op: sandalle |-CURRENTTOPIC-| agenda: 
> wiki.sourcemage.org/Agenda+$(date)
> some blah blah about roadmap and so on... then
> q&a round
> topic set to: current active op: afreydknot |-CURRENTTOPIC-| agenda: 
> wiki.sourcemage.org/Agenda+$(date)
> some blah blah about sorcery and so on... then
> q&a round
> repeat until all the points in agenda are complete.
>
> When all that stuff from the agenda is complete then ppl request
> to speak.
>
> Hope I'm not making all of this to complex...

Sounds a bit more complicated than I was thinking. What do others think?

-sandalle

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