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

[Trevor Daniels]

Colin Hall wrote Tuesday, June 26, 2012 5:44 PM


> 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.

I agree; although I'm afraid I can't be present.  I'm not really
a core developer, so couldn't contribute much to the discussion
anyway.

Trevor