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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:37:34 +0100
From:      David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]
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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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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=



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