On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

[David Chisnall]

On 2 Aug 2012, at 18:28, Doug Barton wrote:

> Welcome to the 21st Century. :) There are widely available audio and
> video conferencing solutions that easily scale into the thousands of
> users, at minimal cost.
> 
> Yes, "It takes effort." I get that. I've been part of the effort to
> provide remote participation for other groups, on a much larger scale
> than anything FreeBSD can dream of.
> 
> My point, and I cannot emphasize this highly enough, is that your entire
> mindset about this is all wrong. It needs to shift from "We'll do this
> on a small scale, for those who ask" to "We'll make providing robust
> remote participation a top priority, built into the planning from day
> 1." It's as simple as that.

Thank you for volunteering to organise this.  It's good to see people with both the motivation and experience required to do something well actively contributing to the project.

David