On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jon Robson wrote:
Brad since you work for the for the foundation and seem to have a lot of expertise in this area and seem to have been one of the more vocal supporters of free fonts have you reached out to your work colleagues over video conferencing or similar to understand the problems being hit and helped them work through them? Email doesn't seem to have been an effective method of communication in this situation as you have pointed out. Maybe you can help with documenting these issues and helping people like yourself understand the problems and why this change was reverted?
It always is a good idea to read IRC and pick up ideas there — especially if a channel isn't logged! If an idea is fruitful, you just get it actioned off-irc (as a bug report, or as an addition to documentation).
For decision-making IRC is just more interactive and more ideas get conveyed and analyzed with less effort.
E-mail and formal "meetings" are in my view harder due to difficulty in conveying ideas or simply participating where I come up with a small idea and want to simply know what others think of it without putting effort into writing a verbose email.