[pm-h] Virtual Meeting

[G. Wade Johnson]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:00:15 -0500
"Haufler, Wayne A" <Wayne.A.Haufler at boeing.com> wrote:

> Not that there isn't considerable value in meeting as a group,
> face-to-face, but let me reiterate my previous suggestion (to which I
> have seen no response) that we consider a virtual electronic meeting
> to compliment the physical meeting for those that can't attend
> physically. Considering how spread out we are, this would be very
> convenient.

I'm sorry, Wayne. I thought I had answered. I did some research on this
when you mentioned it last. I also talked a bit with some of the
leaders of the other PM groups.

Apparently, there had been problems in the past with people not being
willing to be recorded and talking in a context where they could be
recorded.

There had also been issues with people being afraid of being too
informal when they can't see the entire audience.

The result was that some groups had seen a reduction in people willing
to present when recording or virtual meeting type approaches were used.

This is not to say that it wouldn't be different with Houston.pm, but
that is what others had experienced.

Unfortunately, shortly after that I became swamped and haven't looked
into it further. 

> Is this a pipe-dream?  Or can we harness broadband access and tools
> like ICU (?).  I'm not familiar with the state-of-the-art of freely
> available conferencing tools, but will try to look into it.
> 
> But, yes, I'd also like to meet with local Clear Lake area Perl
> Mongers. I have a small list of known Perl users within Boeing
> Houston.

How many Clear Lake members do we have?

G. Wade
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