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Post by snowdrop » Sat May 07, 2011 18:51

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Meetings will take place at 16:00 CET/GMT, every second Sunday, with start this coming one on the 29:th of May.

If anyone wants to raise a topic during the meeting (s)he should either add it to an existing agenda in the wiki or create a new agenda if one isn't around.

Meetings will be logged and/or recorded if done via mumble. A meeting that has dev. participants that for some reason object to using mumble will be kept in written form.

Every member of the meeting is considered to be either a dev participating in the meeting or as a part of the audience, as meetings are held in public. Audience have no say in the subject matter and should not have voice in channel.

Dev participation isn't mandatory but appreciated.

Use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ or something similar to sync your world.


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Greetings fellow devs of WT....

meetings?
I want to suggest regular dev. meetings with non-mandatory presence, open to all that somehow contribute to the project, either on IRC or on voice chat using our Mumble server (thanks chris!).
My idea is a sunday meeting every second week. I think it should be enough for starters, but I'm not sure what time we should set it (GMT). My suggestion is 18:00 GMT.

How many of you think this is a good idea, and those of you that do, what times are you available, if you think you want to show up?


reports

In conjunction and to strengthen the communication between all of us and for us all to get a sense who does what and what has been done I also suggest that we file some kind of bi-weekly reports of just a couple of words if we don't use our social media for such informarion, which we don't - our ping.fm / tweets / facebooks etc are superbly underused, and nobody writes anything at all in it. Please don't get this wrong: I don't want this to eat time from all of our busy lives, I just honestly believe it would push us all into more action and give us energy, pushing each other forward, and sharing info also makes the dev process somewhat more transparent.


Please discuss these both suggestions or leave your reply in this forum thread below.

Thanks.
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Re: meetings & reports

Post by Q_x » Sat May 07, 2011 19:10

http://www.doodle.com/rqsxqi7rzyqyxqr9 (do not fill, read below) would maybe work better for choosing the right term? Add yourself there (all of you), just be mindfull while doing so, as we might stick to a given time (besides that - this is only a proposal).

US folks - lemme know if timezone adjustment works for you automagically - times at my place are from 17 to 23.

As for tracking progress - posting unfinished graphics on twitter I hardly call good idea, all the rest I pretty much do sooner or later, but I do.
ping.fm is easy to taim, but I guess it's a bit hard to tell that "I did something" if this is a tiny piece of translation, small wiki update, or just a brainstorm. But I agree - I don't have a slightest clue what parts of the project are neglected.
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Re: meetings & reports

Post by snowdrop » Sat May 07, 2011 19:24

Doodled myself.. but yeah, dont know what timezone that is... lol...
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Re: meetings & reports

Post by Gallaecio » Sat May 07, 2011 20:41

By the way, if you want to discuss any specific topic(s), it would be good idea to write them down in a page in the wiki.

At Chakra, when we are to have a meeting, we (1) write an Agenda page in the wiki, where anyone can suggest topics that needs to be discussed, then we (2) have the meeting on the IRC, then we (3) publish the log, and then (4) write a wiki page with a readable explanation of the agreements achieved or anything discussed.[1]

I suggest you do 1 if there is any topic to discuss, 2 you will do for sure, strongly recommend to do 3 for historical reasons, and I think you already was going to do 4 in the blog, which is more than fine.

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[1] http://chakra-project.org/wiki/index.ph ... s#Meetings
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Re: meetings & reports

Post by snowdrop » Sat May 07, 2011 20:45

Agreed... no idea having a meeting if it isn't somehow tracked or prepared, at least if people want to prepare for it. :P That said, there should always be the oportunity to raise issues during the meeting even if it isn't on the agenda. Preferably though, stuff would be on the agenda....
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Re: meetings & reports

Post by Q_x » Sat May 07, 2011 20:47

Same experiences from PARPG. Agenda actually speeds meetings a lot, as one can prepare longer messages prior to meeting. And no one gets surprised by any question, at least not often.
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Re: meetings & reports

Post by aspidites » Sun May 08, 2011 07:39

I think a bi-weekly meeting would be a good idea. Its always nice to see if I'm the only one dragging my feet :P I'll add myself to the doodle shortly.

As for updates, I'm not a social networking kind of person (facebook, twitter, etc). If there is a team login for ping.fm that doesn't require me to personally register, I wouldn't mind giving updates about overmind (which is currently going yet another potential rewrite lmao).
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Post by snowdrop » Sun May 08, 2011 08:21

aspidites wrote:I think a bi-weekly meeting would be a good idea. Its always nice to see if I'm the only one dragging my feet :P
No, you wouldn't be alone when it comes to that (but really, that's a good sign as well - means you have a life filled with something else ;) ) ...main reason is however not to have a tribunal where we easure who hasn't done what - it's more of an attempt to get continuity and better contact between all of us (we suck at that), and also to gain the insight of our overall status. Sometimes there will be plenty of stuff to discuss, others not.
I'll add myself to the doodle shortly.
Guys, this is how I myself see the doodle:

http://wtactics.org/files/pics/2011_05_%24d_03.jpeg

Now, if you all see the identical one (especially the people that live in US or Aus), then we might have a problem, since it then assumes that all people live in the same timezone. What we need to sort out is what timezone people had in their head when they doodled. Hopefully it was GMT if the doodle doesn't adjust to your local settings. If it does adjust, then hopefully the person filling it in used his own timezone.
If there is a team login for ping.fm that doesn't require me to personally register, I wouldn't mind giving updates about overmind (which is currently going yet another potential rewrite lmao).
Yes, there is, and that's the one we're "expected" to use. :) At least my ambition has been that people use it to report whenever they have done something. So for example: "Almost done with re-write of plugin system" would be an ok ping I think, as it shows that the project is alive and also informs other devs as well. The ping is really only there for that - showing the world we're breathing. The internet is a demanding place on that account, if you fail to post a blog or something else within a 2 weeks and you're assumed to be just another failed project. :P

I'll give you the ping info via mail.
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Re: meetings & reports

Post by TorbenBeta » Sun May 08, 2011 09:54

Guys, this is how I myself see the doodle:

http://wtactics.org/files/pics/2011_05_%24d_03.jpeg

Now, if you all see the identical one (especially the people that live in US or Aus), then we might have a problem, since it then assumes that all people live in the same timezone. What we need to sort out is what timezone people had in their head when they doodled. Hopefully it was GMT if the doodle doesn't adjust to your local settings. If it does adjust, then hopefully the person filling it in used his own timezone.
Well, I wrote it as it would be GMT. I'm living in GMT +1, so I always added an hour to the times. Example: If there stood 17-18, I read 17-18 but thought 18-19.
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Re: meetings & reports

Post by Q_x » Mon May 09, 2011 05:49

Once again I set up the doodle thingy, this time *without support for timezones", which seems to support the timezones better than the *support for timezones" one. At least browser in porn mode + anonymouse.org made me think so.

http://www.doodle.com/4ah7qfn4fvws2eq3

is the new adress. Tell me if you have any problems this time, and sorry for all this mess...

Edit by snowdrop: Meaning, all times in there are displayed in whatever timezone you choose in the menu. Please select your own timezone!
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