Hi,

Yesterday it was raised that our IRC meetings might be a bit stressful for
people that are not native English speakers, or that are not used to
following text discussions that go so fast.

I agree that this is a problem and good like to improve the way we do our
meetings.

For future meetings I plan to:

1) When there seems to be agreement on something but it's not 100% clear do:

marga suggests: #agreed we should do foo/bar/baz

And then people can state clearly if they don't agree.  This is not just
for me, anyone can suggest an agreement.  It usually helps if we try to
formulate what we agree on, so that we stop discussing things that everyone
already is ok with, and so that people with concerns can raise objections
explicitly about the part that they don't agree with.

2) If the discussion goes on long after it was slotted to finish, suggest
that we should follow up on a different medium (on list, follow-up IRC
meeting, phonecall, whatever).

I'd be happy to hear any other suggestions that others may have regarding
how to improve our meetings to make them easier to follow without making
them take hours and hours.

Thanks!

-- 
Besos,
Marga
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