People seem to want to meet face to face and exchange real words - can&#39;t imagine why? Perhaps the visit to the pub afterwards?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 September 2012 15:47, rexx <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rexx@blueyonder.co.uk" target="_blank">rexx@blueyonder.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Set up an &quot;UK office hours&quot; on IRC like the Foundation does. By the way, did you ever read Asimov&#39;s Foundation? They thought they were writing an encyclopedia as well.<br>

<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_%28novel%29#The_Encyclopedists" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_%28novel%29#The_Encyclopedists</a><br>
<br>-- <br>Doug<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 27 September 2012 14:11, Jon Davies <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk" target="_blank">jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">I have had two email conversations this morning about hot and often perennial issues around editing, ethics etc.  It strikes me that there is an appetite for having some osrt of debates, perhaps streamed, where people came together to debate hot issues,<br>




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