Draft meeting SOP

[Matthias Clasen]

On mar, 2011-07-12 at 12:48 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 11:29 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:39:45 -0400,
> >   James Laska <jlaska at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 11:18 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:03:09 -0400,
> > > >   James Laska <jlaska at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any feedback is appreciated.  If nothing comes up, I'll move this out of
> > > > > my User:Jlaska space, and link to it from [[QA/Meetings]].
> > > > 
> > > > The section on cancelling meetings doesn't give any guidance on when that
> > > > should occur. It isn't clear if it is intended to be a day before (when
> > > > the agenda would be sent out) or shortly before (when the reminder would
> > > > be emailed).
> > > 
> > > Good point.  What would you recommend?  I've seen where IRC meetings are
> > > canceled days in advance, and the day of.  I can draft some wording
> > > noting that earlier the better?
> > 
> > I think it would be polite to cancel a day (24 hours) in advance. But if last
> > minute emergency items come up on a regular basis, then that might not work.
> 
> Okay, I've added some wording around your suggestion.  Also, I fixed the
> missing #meeting-name command.
> 

I have to admit that I find the idea of a meeting sop between perplexing
and amusing... if you want to meet, you meet. Are we really so
process-orientated that we can't perform the most basic things without a
'sop' ? 

Whats next, a hand washing sop ?


Matthias