> On May 17, 2019, at 11:02 AM, Aaron Falk <aaron.falk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 17 May 2019, at 10:22, Mark Nottingham wrote: > > I've heard folks in other venues opine that the real purpose of F2F meetings is just this; socialisation, so that when you're arguing with someone on the other side of the planet behind a keyboard, there's some shared context / good will. > > This is an important insight, IMO. A lot of what we do is about getting agreement between humans and relationships are an important part of that. > > --aaron > Somewhat-OT, but related: I’ve worked remotely 20 of the past 25 years of my employment history. What has worked well was there were regular F2F meetings scheduled with these people distributed around the country or the globe so we could meet with each other. Without that it’s much harder for the reasons listed above. Sometimes you only find out something by that f2f meeting. If you work remote and the rest of the culture is around f2f and doesn’t support you remotely or the ability to travel periodically to see these people, it will be more challenging is my experience. I regularly find things where people only bring them up because we are f2f when they could have contacted me remotely. Some of the cross-area review really depends on the f2f nature of meetings IMO, more to socialize than the technical bits as Mark noted above. - Jared
