[sldev] Mailing list chatter (Re: Upcoming viewer releases?)

[Mike Monkowski]

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> 30 messages/day x 1 min message = 3.5 hours/week/developer.  That
> becomes really expensive for everyone here to do.

OK, how about putting SLDev Traffic into their mailboxes.  That would 
get them the highlights and more interest in the Traffic would improve 
the summaries.  I appreciate that Soft Linden writes these summaries, so 
I don't mean this as criticism, but it would be nice if the summaries 
had links to SLDev Archives to read the originals.  And people who felt 
their points were missed in the Traffic would actually edit the Traffic.

> For example, one thing that would be INCREDIBLY productive is if people
> were to actually put things that we don't seem to be addressing on the
> open source meeting agenda page:
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Source_Meeting/Agenda
> 
> That page is often empty week-to-week.  It's up to you all to set the
> agenda.  We'll show up and talk about what you want to, and we'll post
> the minutes for people that can't be there, AND we'll even respond on
> this mailing list to post-meeting comments if folks want to continue the
> conversation here.  However, we're asking for a little help here.

As someone mentioned in another context, not only are these "work hours" 
for you, they are "work hours" for many of us as well.  We can find time 
while our code compiles to check a mailing list, but dedicating an hour 
at a time is tough.

I'd also mention using voice chat, but there seems to be a lot of 
antipathy to that here.  It wouldn't be so bad to listen in like a 
conference call and jump in when something interesting comes up.  I've 
learned to do that quite well in my real job while I actually get some 
work done. :-)

The raw transcripts are nice, but a summary of the outcomes would be 
useful as well.

Back to the paying job. :-(

Mike