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Mon May 29 13:52:58 UTC 2006

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Daniel Mayer wrote:
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>>--- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
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>>>It's more the opposite: I consider in-person meetings of such low value 
>>>that they are not worth going out of my way to attend or send someone to 
>>>attend.  This is not 1930; internet projects for decades now have been 
>>>coordinated solely by means of the internet.
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>>In person meetings may be of low value to you, but I've found them to be extremely productive
>>compared to email/IRC or even phone. For example, we accomplished more in a single weekend during
>>the January face-to-face meeting of all the board members and most of the officers than we did in
>>the six months prior to that. 
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>That is absolutely right.  A LOT can be done face to face which is
>difficult or impossible online.
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That is very correct. When you meet people things get done easier than 
any of the substitutes for a face to face meeting. It is one of the 
things I miss a lot in my interaction with fellow wikimedians!

Waerth/Walter

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