On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have to whack this mole again: > > We *want* people to stay the whole week and participate in meetings > outside their own speciality, so as to detect overlaps, oversights and > synergies. We *don't* want people to keep their heads down and focus > only on one topic. That way lie silos and duplications of effort. > > Just to take your example, if Monday is mail and Wednesday is web, > when is Internationalization and when is Security? (And to be > really silly, when is Webmail?) > > It doesn't compute. +1 Yes, one day for topic X is convenient for those working only on topic X. Culturally, however, that would be a very damaging plan.