user discussion & meeting and more meetings

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at redhat dot com>]

lets throw this open for debate;

On Wednesday's @9:30 CA-EST is a discussion about UI aspects of frysk.  
The discussion ranges from utilities through to the gnome components.  
The discussion has the following goals:
-> focus on end user experience
-> be focused - very limited topic list, shorter meeting
-> have clear outcomes, and follow them through
-> occasionally, the opportunity to explore new ideas
At the moment I'm picking things driven largely by active work that I'm 
aware of.  Going forward, I hope this will evolve into more of a weekly 
show-n-tell - an opportunity to highlight progress and gain quick 
feedback on new work.  The discussion is proving to be largely 
non-technical.

Elena is asking that there also be made available time where non user 
issues can be addressed:
-> a free technical exchange
-> co-operative planning and administration
(At present there's an internal meeting that touches on this).

There are several ideas to kick around:
-> expand Wednesday morning's meeting to include other matters
-> add a second weekly meeting
-> Cycle the Wednesday meeting so that it alternates between user / 
technical / co-op focused
-> have less regular technical/co-op focused meetings
-> use mailing lists and irc for technical stuff
-> ...

I've two personal and strong preferences:
-> not have too many meetings
-> keep discussion focused, for instance, as been done with UI discussion

Comments and suggestions.

Andrew