<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2011 09:03, Dave F. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davefox@madasafish.com">davefox@madasafish.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 01/05/2011 20:50, Nic Roets wrote:<br>
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Note that open IRC is the Internet equivalent to the town hall<br>
meetings.<br>
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No, it's not. Those occur in the time zone of the those involved.<br>
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IRC meetings, on the other hand, occur outside of many OSM users waking/working day.<br>
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This is another reason for the descenting voices to feel it's "behind closed doors".<br><font color="#888888">
</font></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I just had to comment on this because I could hardly believe what I was reading.<br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div>In a global, world-wide-web, no matter what time is selected for an IRC (or whatever) meeting, it's going to be inconvenient for *someone*. Deal with it! Only tin-foil-hat conspiracy theorists could possible consider it was behind closed doors. Not that I've looked, but I'd bet anything there's an open record of the entire IRC conversation archived somewhere accessible. Sheesh.</div>
<br>-- <br>Andrew<br><br>