Meetings and communications

What is the relationship between meetings and persistent communications?

The common opinion --let us state it here for the first time-- is that we communicate during meetings, of which we produce minutes. There is a wide-spread reluctance to even produce detailed minutes, on the ground that reading them --even worse commenting them!-- would be a loss of time, and a source of misunderstanding and disorder.
In short: spending time reading and writing in public forums is inefficient and reprehensible...

The alternative supported here is that we should primarily communicate in public, persistent forums, and only have check-point meetings.

Here is why:


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Marc Girod
Last modified: Fri Jan 4 12:01:21 EET 2002