Hi, during my holidays I evaluated where I spend my time. I feel that the weekly IRC meetings in their current form do not foster more development or get stuff done on the maintenance side of things but keep rather reiterating on the things we feel we should do. As they keep adding more maintenance burden on me (preparation and post-mortem) without having much effect (it seemed there was some steam initially but that dropped substantially) I'll seek ways to contribute my time more efficiently. I had a very enjoyable face to face meeting with Hanno Schlichting and Veit Schiele (of DZUG fame) today in which we figured that we'd like to support creative action within the ZTK next year. We'd like to do so by organizing a sprint each quarter over here in Germany. We're sketching out details on how we want organization to work out over the next weeks so that we find the topics that are interesting to people. Our current goal is to get together during March for 3 days, probably in Berlin. Christian -- Christian Theune · ct@gocept.com gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 0 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development