[Debconf-team] of IRC and organisation: a plea to use the mailing lists

2007-03-18 Thread Jon Dowland
Hello all, I've started to think that heavy use of IRC for organising this conference is more of a curse than a blessing. The ability to rapid-fire questions and decisions between team members offers a short term convenience but means there's virtually no record of what's going on bar backlogs for

Re: [Debconf-team] of IRC and organisation: a plea to use the mailing lists

2007-03-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:45:29PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: >Hello all, > >I've started to think that heavy use of IRC for organising >this conference is more of a curse than a blessing. The >ability to rapid-fire questions and decisions between team >members offers a short term convenience but me

Re: [Debconf-team] of IRC and organisation: a plea to use the mailing lists

2007-03-18 Thread Kevin Campbell
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:45:29PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > Hello all, > > I've started to think that heavy use of IRC for organising > this conference is more of a curse than a blessing. The > ability to rapid-fire questions and decisions between team > members offers a short term convenience

Re: [Debconf-team] of IRC and organisation: a plea to use the mailing lists

2007-03-18 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:44:43PM +, Kevin Campbell wrote: > I would suggest that we try and improve matters by getting > people involved in key areas to publish regular status > reports / updates on the list. I'm going to be doing this > for teviot as of next week, so perhaps that will get th

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf7 meeting reminder

2007-03-18 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:11:32PM +, Moray Allan wrote: > The next meeting will be on Monday (19 March), at 20 UTC. > This is about 12 weeks before DebConf starts. > > As usual see > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf7/Meetings for the > agenda. I'm going to have to leave apologies for thi