[Standards-JIG] [Fwd: [interop] day 1 summary]

[thomasasta at gmx.net]

Hal, thanks for the open words.
Yes, face to face could not replaced.
Big companies have this effect. Maybe IT poeple does not want to communicate often? Dunno. It´s all about the question of responsibility.
If you get your money and have your mute, then why wondering? For a small startup of your own this would be different, as you are an acting person.
Training of new personnel then becomes more priority. Ask the HRD for that.
Mentoring for the new ones is a quite useful way.
Internet communication and friends globally is the future... 
Well... help to develop video and VIOP chat, it is then better than text chat. Maybe in jabber, maybe in CSpace. Which Messenger do you use in your huge company?

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Datum: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 15:49:12 -0400
Von: "Hal Rottenberg" <halr9000 at gmail.com>
An: "Jabber protocol discussion list" <standards-jig at jabber.org>
Betreff: Re: [Standards-JIG] [Fwd: [interop] day 1 summary]

> On 8/5/06, Carlo v. Loesch <CvL at mail.symlynx.com> wrote:
> > the choice of software tested sounds pretty random.
> 
> It was limited to XMPP-compliant software.  That's why Psi wasn't on
> there (although we are almost there!)
> 
> > why did you have to sit around physically if what you did was sit at
> your
> > laptops and try out something you could have tried out anywhere and
> without
> > leaving anybody out who wasn't there physically?
> > your interop day surely had some other useful purpose (down with virtual
> beer)
> > but concerning this test you might aswell have organized it in an
> internet-
> > centric way...
> 
> I work for a huge company.  I've never met my boss in person.  I work
> >from home every day.  I jabber my co-workers on a near-constant basis,
> but I never see them.  Only one-fourth are in the state, with the
> remainder split between various US states and Bangalore.
> 
> There is extremely poor knowledge sharing across the team members.
> It's hard for the new employees to get consistent training.  I could
> go on, there's a bunch of negatives.
> 
> Let me tell you something I have learned.  Honestly, this is no way to
> run a company.  It's pretty much unavoidable in my industry (IT
> outsourcing), and especially in a global corporation such as the on eI
> work for.  But if I were running a startup, I would want to get most
> of  the employees in the same location.  The remote ones I'd fly in
> periodically to the home office.
> 
> There is just no substitute for face-to-face interaction.
> 
> For the record, as a senior team member, it works GREAT for me.  :)  I
> set my own hours, no commute.  But I miss the interaction with my
> cow-orkers sometimes.
> 
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