On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Charles-H. Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday we had to cancel the marketing irc chat session on the spot, due > to the very low number of participants (3, including me). The conversation > was interesting but was going much beyond the agenda itself. > While this is disappointing, it's about the third time this happens. > Interestingly enough, I'm always thinking that there's something wrong with > the schedule of the chat session. So the last three sessions were scheduled > at different times of the day. It does not seem to help or to affect the > participants' turnout in any way. > > I would be interested to know why this is the case. Below are a few possible > factors: > - many people are confused by IRC -> should we restart to do marketing chats > on the phone? I seem to remember the turnout was higher on the phone but I > might be wrong. > - people are shy - IRC is supposedly letting many people sit in the > background and not have to express themselves in public. > - language barrier? > - the discussion topics are not interesting > - the information about the chat session is not spread around enough > > What do you think ? What do you propose? > > Looking forward to your input, > > Charles.
Most times I do not join because the time is bad for me. This chat was starting at midnight my time. Some chats are at better times, but often I am not somewhere that I can get online. I will not join a phone chat. IRC works for me. --Jean -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
