Meetings with a large number of online or teleconferencing participants are practical,
provided those in the aether are receiving but not sending (except maybe one at a time -
for example Email the chair in advance if you want to pose a question and have the chair
dial you in when your slot comes up).
Regards
Jonathan Cardy (WereSpielChequers)
dahsun(a)yahoo.com
--- On Sun, 14/12/08, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Sunday, 14 December, 2008, 2:10 PM
2008/12/1 Michael Shilliday
<mjshilliday(a)googlemail.com>om>:
I have never commented here before, but why the
need
for a physical AGM?
Incorporated companies have been having online
AGMs
for years now. It may
be necessary for a small group of people to be
sitting
in a room together,
but the voting members don't necessarily need
to
be.
There may be a hugely compelling reason why this
is
necessary, but that's
just my thoughts,
MJS
Online meetings of large groups of people aren't
practical. If we
wanted members to just vote and that's it, then it
would be fine, but
we would like to actually get people involved in discussion
and
debate. It's pretty much impossible to maintain order
in an IRC
channel with dozens of people talking at once.
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