[Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

> I do not know of alternatives.  In open source groups I participate in,
> it's email and IRC.  At work, we pay for phone bridges (audio only), but
> I realize that has cost implications.

It's both costly (monitarily) but also, I've found video conferences
work a lot better. You get a lot of information about someone from
their face, and non-verbal cues help drive the conversation.

> From my view, Faustian bargains should be rejected, and then the best
> choices picked from what remains.  (The existence of a useful service
> with bad privacy properties doesn't change how I look at the rest of the
> options.)  I realize I'm probably an outlier, but I wanted to speak up.

I think that the option to allow outsiders to participate using the
phone is a reasonable alternative, as they can be spared the use of
the proprietary technology.

As you said you aren't going to be able to make it next time, I don't
think this will be a problem. If someone attending has an issue with
Google+ and or the telephone, then we'll have to figure out what to
do, but I'd like to stay focused on keeping things moving forward.

- Serge
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> Greg
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