Re: user discussion & meeting and more meetings

[Nurdin Premji <npremji@redhat.com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> lets throw this open for debate;
>
> On Wednesday's @9:30 CA-EST is a discussion about UI aspects of 
> frysk.  The discussion ranges from utilities through to the gnome 
> components.  The discussion has the following goals:
> -> focus on end user experience
> -> be focused - very limited topic list, shorter meeting
> -> have clear outcomes, and follow them through
> -> occasionally, the opportunity to explore new ideas
> At the moment I'm picking things driven largely by active work that 
> I'm aware of.  Going forward, I hope this will evolve into more of a 
> weekly show-n-tell - an opportunity to highlight progress and gain 
> quick feedback on new work.  The discussion is proving to be largely 
> non-technical.
>
> Elena is asking that there also be made available time where non user 
> issues can be addressed:
> -> a free technical exchange
> -> co-operative planning and administration
> (At present there's an internal meeting that touches on this).
>
> There are several ideas to kick around:
> -> expand Wednesday morning's meeting to include other matters
> -> add a second weekly meeting
> -> Cycle the Wednesday meeting so that it alternates between user / 
> technical / co-op focused
> -> have less regular technical/co-op focused meetings
> -> use mailing lists and irc for technical stuff
> -> ...
>
> I've two personal and strong preferences:
> -> not have too many meetings
> -> keep discussion focused, for instance, as been done with UI discussion
>
> Comments and suggestions.
>
> Andrew
>
I lean towards cycling through useability/technical meetings.