Re: Efficient board meetings, revised

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:02:22PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:26:11PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > small number of guests attending meeting, being friendly to them cannot
> > > harm the organization.
> > `Being friendly' to someone doesn't mean keeping a dozen or two people
> > waiting for them to type their name. It means making them feel
>
> What are you talking about? I do not hold up a meeting waiting for
> guests to state their names. I have asked them to /msg their name to
> David. Making that request takes about 5 seconds. Then we move on.
>
> We only wait for board members to state their names in the channel.

And we've learned not to wait for Joey S., as he'll never do it. ;-P

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