On 5/26/06, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org>
wrote:
Since most of us don't have sufficient funds
to travel to public
meetings, nor sufficiently flexible schedules to sit around on IRC, it
should be no surprise that we're much more willing to debate on mailing
lists, which are the most inclusive. If there were a public meeting in
Atlanta, I would certainly attend, but to my knowledge there hasn't been
one.
[snip]
If you consider your own contributions of such low value that they are
not worth going out of your way to present, even including sending
someone else in your place... then why should we expect them to be
worth our time reading on a mailing list?
It's more the opposite: I consider in-person meetings of such low value
that they are not worth going out of my way to attend or send someone to
attend. This is not 1930; internet projects for decades now have been
coordinated solely by means of the internet.
-Mark