Draft meeting SOP

James Laska jlaska at redhat.com
Tue Jul 12 17:21:57 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 13:03 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 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' ? 

Heh, I don't think this is soooo bad from a process perspective.  I
suspect that FOSS/Fedora developers may be more accustomed to meeting
and discussing on IRC already.  My goal for documenting this was more to
streamline how I run the meetings now ... and to encourage others to
feel comfortable #chair'ing in the future.

> Whats next, a hand washing sop ?

I'll get right on that!

Thanks,
James

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