Meetings with a large number of online or teleconferencing participants are practical, provided those in the aether are receiving but not sending (except maybe one at a time - for example Email the chair in advance if you want to pose a question and have the chair dial you in when your slot comes up).
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Jonathan Cardy (WereSpielChequers)
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--- On Sun, 14/12/08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sunday, 14 December, 2008, 2:10 PM 2008/12/1 Michael Shilliday mjshilliday@googlemail.com:
I have never commented here before, but why the need
for a physical AGM?
Incorporated companies have been having online AGMs
for years now. It may
be necessary for a small group of people to be sitting
in a room together,
but the voting members don't necessarily need to
be.
There may be a hugely compelling reason why this is
necessary, but that's
just my thoughts, MJS
Online meetings of large groups of people aren't practical. If we wanted members to just vote and that's it, then it would be fine, but we would like to actually get people involved in discussion and debate. It's pretty much impossible to maintain order in an IRC channel with dozens of people talking at once.
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