Hello olegil@samfundet.no
Konban wa, Ochan-san (I make references to the japanese language now and then, you'll just have to get used to it. Oh and btw, on the window from the lab looking into my office I have started to hang up "Kanji of the day" printouts. I'm very likely going to do the same here, link to a Kanji, with examples and explanations in my sig every day. Be warned :-) . Of course, it'll look harmless enough, since it's just going to be a link in a signature, but it's like a mental virus. Once you know a couple of Kanji, you'll want to learn more :-P ).
On 09/01/2005, you wrote:
Say we were to have an IRC session at 8PM UTC this evening, then everyone would know from the above link what this translates to in their local timezone.
Sounds good to me, but do take in account that just about all of us have day jobs, so that makes it almost a weekend only activity
You don't know that until you've asked. I have time, because I don't have kids and am no good with women ;-) If everyone is going to say "I can only work on this 2 hours each third weekend", then we might as well just shut down the list and go our separate ways right now. This isn't nbtscan we're talking about, it's OpenOffice.org. 1.5GB of source code (once uncompressed). It's also much better to find out NOW that we only have capacity for 4-5 one-hour IRC sessions each weekend rather than 10-14 half-hour sessions spread throughout the week. At least then we know what we can expect to accomplish in a session, and how we should go about it. Since you've already organised the head honcho vote, I think airing some ideas for how the team should work is good, because then the management has a place to start when they assemble. We don't need to decide on anything right now (it's like with SVN. I only suggested SVN because I have the server, the space and the bandwidth. I also think it's very good and that Amiga needs it. Some people just couldn't take that as a friendly suggestion). Just because it is mentioned doesn't mean it has to be voted over the same day. I think thats THE most important thing I want to say about IRC sessions as well. I suggested what I did because then we have some time to go over what NEEDS to be voted over, or otherwise set in stone, at the start of the session, then we have time for other on-topic ideas, and even possibly some time for off-topic ideas. If done right, this could be a fun experience for everyone involved. Except the poor sod who gets the blame when we fail, of course. The last IRC session will be dedicated to blame-storming, which is almost like brain-storming, except the only goal is to find someone to blame it on (and a good excuse ;-) ). This is the most important session to attend, as you really need to use those finely honed diplomatic skills not to end up with the blame ;-)
PS: I almost suggested "Amiga Porting Effort: OpenOffice.org", because it makes such a nice acronym :-P ("ooh ooh" is pretty close to "ook ook" *hum*) PPS: apeoo.org is available as well :-D
DaveyD already has a domain.
I sincerely wasn't expecting anyone to take that seriously. I'm truly shocked to see that some people don't have even THAT much sense of humour ;-)