[General] SoC / Interns IRC Office hour

[Philippe Bossut]

stephen white wrote:
> On 02/09/2006, at 9:34 AM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
>> During our last IRC office hour, it was proposed that we reduce the 
>> duration of the weekly IRC meeting to 30 minutes.
>
> A comment that I've seen about OSA is that it's run by successful 
> people... so they all spend their time managing the high level details 
> instead of getting on with the grunt work. Too many managers, not 
> enough chefs, leading to what appears to be happening here - days and 
> days of messages about whether it's "alpha", "beta" or "dogfood".
>
> Just call it "Piddly Wonk" or something completely and utterly 
> meaningless, and shove it out of the door. Success or failure isn't 
> going to be measured by what it's called but by what it does and how 
> well it achieves the objectives (if identified) that it sets out to 
> address. Engineers and techies are going to be your first round 
> audience, and we don't care about the label.
>
Sure, sure... I said in another thread that I actually have "no 
religion" (i.e. "I don't really care as long as no one is confused or 
offended") on this issue.

Still, I'm wondering: what does this tirade has to do with our intern 
program? (the subject of this thread).

Puzzled,
- Philippe