I have several ideas about this that I'd like to discuss with you at some point in the Dehli planning stages, Keiren. You can partially solve the time issue by allowing a conversation to take place serially over a period of days. This would allow for a richer dialogue than just "I post question" and "some Board member responds." I think it would mean getting the agenda up, having an email or wiki based dialogue occurring on issues ahead of the meeting, with the Board/ Staff fully engaged as need, so that the conversation culminates in a statement or a handout at the meeting. Bret On Dec 20, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Kieren McCarthy wrote: The response to my plea here will be: "Well the timezone issue makes it impossible." To which I will respond: "So what possible solutions can we come up with?" So can we just miss out these intervening emails and accept that there will *always* been timezone issues and so we should devise ways to improve participation with that in mind. What about: earlier agendas; questions sent prior to a meeting raised during the meeting; possible recap meetings the next day taking in feedback? Other ideas? -- Bret Fausett (skype me at "lextext") smime.p7s is a digital signature http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html -------------------------------------