D Language Foundation Quarterly Meeting, October 2021

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 5 November 2021 at 13:19:30 UTC, Matheus wrote:
> On Friday, 5 November 2021 at 11:57:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> ...
>
> Nice summary, but why these meetings are no recorded or 
> streamed?
>
> Matheus.

I do record the meetings to help me with the summaries. In this 
case, I was unable to attend, so the recording was my primary 
source. I don't think that would serve any purpose to publish it 
or to stream the meetings beyond what the summaries already 
provide.

The big issue for me: when people have the public eye on them, it 
will inevitably impact what they say in the meeting. One 
particular opinion or remark can become the news rather than the 
topic about which it was made. We want everyone participating to 
be able to speak freely without self-censoring, or worrying about 
what viewers would think of any specific thing they say. This is 
especially true now that we are inviting contributors to 
participate, as some of them may be more reluctant to do so if 
their comments are public.

There are also times when we make tentative plans for something 
and we don't want to make the details public until we are more 
certain that it is going to happen. I see no benefit in exposing 
the details of these conversations.

And then there are times when we discuss topics related to one of 
the D shops that they don't want to be made public knowledge. 
This doesn't just happen in the quarterly meetings when the 
industry reps are present, but also sometimes in the smaller 
monthly meetings.

And even if we did stream them or publish a recording, I would 
still need to write a summary for the people who don't want to 
sit through a 2+ hour stream or skim through a recording looking 
for the highlights. Consider the summary of the 
marketing/ecosystem discussion. That discussion was scattered 
throughout the first two hours of the meeting as people kept 
coming back to it. Who has the time to skip back and forth 
through the video to piece it all together? So I'll have to edit 
out any sensitive topics that we discussed *and* write the 
summary. No thanks.