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Riccardo Bernardini

Do not organise meetings that could be an email instead.

I like this, but, depending on the actual goal, I discovered that a meeting (Skype call, actually) is more effective. I would prefer e-mail discussion since it is asynchronous (you do not need to find a time-slot that is fine for everyone) and one can think with some leisure about the issue, but it seems that is only me. (Well, not only me: IETF discussions are mostly e-mail based, nevertheless...)

If you need to announce something, a mail is good; but if you need to reach a decision, even a simple one that can be discussed by e-mail, if you call a meeting you get the attention of the others; the e-mail (I have the impression) is easily ignored.

For full disclosure, I should say that I am not talking about meeting with other developers, but research meeting with colleagues in other universities (I work in academia). This means that we are not employees of the same employer and you need to rely only on the efficiency of your peers. This maybe changes the setting a bit.