--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
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.
In person meetings may be of low value to you, but I've found them to be extremely productive compared to email/IRC or even phone. For example, we accomplished more in a single weekend during the January face-to-face meeting of all the board members and most of the officers than we did in the six months prior to that.
Having most of our paid staff in close proximity to like-minded organizations and representatives of all the nations of the world will likely have similar efficiencies since meetings could be made much more easily and frequently.
-- mav
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