[Foundation-l] Wikimedia main office

[Jimmy Wales]

Daniel Mayer wrote:
> --- Delirium <delirium at 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. 

That is absolutely right.  A LOT can be done face to face which is
difficult or impossible online.