[Wellington-pm] Reminder: meeting tonight
Srdjan
srdjan at catalyst.net.nz
Tue May 9 15:35:10 PDT 2006
Quite contrary my friend, I should apologise. As I was gently reminded it was
*Me* who mislead you to believe that it would take 15 minutes. Of course, no one
mentioned *helpers* to the gross overrun, but you know - we all share our
victories, but in defeats we're all alone...
How about deciding the order by a lucky draw? A module Presenter::Random?
michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
> Grant McLean writes:
>> Thanks to both our speakers for interesting presentations. Michael if
>> you want to send me your slides I'll put them up on the web site
>> (perhaps without the footnotes).
>
> Definitely without the footnotes :)
>
>> On an administrative note, it looks like we need to institute policy for
>> deciding the order of speakers in the infrequent case where there is
>> competition for a particular slot. I suggest that from now on the rule
>> is: the person who was first to volunteer gets to chose whether they
>> speak first or second. If I'd thought of that rule last night, then
>> Michael would have got the first slot.
>
> As it turns out, the wife wasn't upset at all, so apologies for the aggro,
> Srdjan :/.
>
> I've noticed the rule in previous meetings has been that whoever has
> actually got their presentation in a presentable state goes first; the
> other hacks away on a laptop to finish the presentation.
>
> That seems like a reasonable rule, that relies on human nature; it's
> just that Srdjan and I are both obviously overachievers who prepare
> things before time.
>
> As it was, there was at least one slide that was written during Srdjan's
> presentation (and yes, the footnotes as well), so I didn't suffer as
> much as I might have made out :).
>
> -- michael.
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