[Foundation-l] Wikimedia main office

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Fri May 26 22:51:41 UTC 2006


Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 5/26/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Since most of us don't have sufficient funds to travel to public
>> meetings, nor sufficiently flexible schedules to sit around on IRC, it
>> should be no surprise that we're much more willing to debate on mailing
>> lists, which are the most inclusive.  If there were a public meeting in
>> Atlanta, I would certainly attend, but to my knowledge there hasn't been
>> one.
>>     
> [snip]
>
> If you consider your own contributions of such low value that they are
> not worth going out of your way to present, even including sending
> someone else in your place... then why should we expect them to be
> worth our time reading on a mailing list?

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.

-Mark




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