Re: Meeting 2nd half of August! (was: GOP2: 0 - why are we losing developers? (discuss responses))

[Colin Hall]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 06:26:34PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Mailing list arguments are a trickier issue. It???s clearly a big
> > problem, but this isn???t something we can fix by waving a change of
> > policy. I???ll schedule a time to discuss it. We need to do
> > something about this, although at the moment I have no immediate
> > suggestions.
> 
> I have one.  It may sound absurd, but then I have learnt "once you ruled
> out the impossible whatever remains however improbable might be
> effective", and there are a few things that somehow or other appear to
> be hard, particularly for me.  Decent communication in electronic media
> is one of the things I am spectacularly bad at.  One thing that has
> turned out to be effective at times is meeting people in person.

I think this is an excellent idea.

Anything that gets us away from typing at each other and towards human
contact is a good thing.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall