Re: [wsbpel] weeklong f2f plan in september

[Prasad Yendluri <pyendluri@webmethods.com>]

Hi,

A +1 from me as well. FWIW I did vote no on the ballot sent out proposing to hold it for 5 days. Doing nothing but BPEL locked up in a room for 5 full days is something I would perhaps enjoy :) but, like most others I need to juggle others things in parallel at work and blocking 5 full days of work hours in a row is difficult.

Thanks, Prasad


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Subject:	Re: [wsbpel] weeklong f2f plan in september
Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:48:45 -0700
From:	Yaron Y. Goland <ygoland@bea.com>
Reply-To:	ygoland@bea.com
Organization:	BEA
To:	Satish Thatte <satisht@microsoft.com>
CC:	wsbpel@lists.oasis-open.org
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+1

I will bare my shame by publicly admitting that I enjoy f2f meetings. 
Having a high bandwidth pipe to discuss issues is such a relief after 
trying to shove everything into the straw sized e-mail pipe. But at 
around the 3rd day even my energy starts to flag. My experience is that 
at around the 3rd day people either lose interest or start getting 
snippy because they are tired. I agree with Satish that the meeting 
should be 3 days (strictly speaking 2.5 days ala what we did at the last 
meeting) and that we should move the subsequent December meeting to an 
earlier date (e.g. the first week of December) in order to maintain 
momentum.

	Yaron

Satish Thatte wrote:

> 
> 
> I am concerned that a weeklong F2F will not be productive.  Several reasons
> 
> * By the third day people are going to run out of energy 
> 
> * We will not have enough predigested material to use 5 days effectively
> 
> * Many people will not be able to stay for a whole week and we will have 
> fragmented attendance
> 
> It would be better to speed up the cycle than to lengthen the meetings 
> dramatically.  I suggest we reduce to 3 full days and schedule the next 
> meeting for the 1st week of December, to keep the momentum going.
> 
> I would like to propose this as a topic for discussion during the next 
> TC call.
> 
> Satish