Community Meeting Agenda 1 September 2009

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Administrative items

 * 1) Assignment of time keeper and note taker
 * 2) Introduction of new members: 10 seconds for name and desired takeaways.
 * 3) Review of Minutes
 * 4) Today's agenda preview

Information items

 * 1) There was a somewhat lively discussion on the Manual of Style Discussion page back in June and July regarding Portal/Unportal. That discussion was supposed to end around the 1st of July. Was consensus ever reached on this matter? Jbparker 01:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The consensus was reached back in May, just before the NGS conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. As you can see the Portals are changing one at a time. USA, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina.... Great Britain's counties are already "Unportal". Dsammy 03:11, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, I remember the lively discussion and it was suggested that people try converting pages. However, I personally do not remember that a consensus was actually achieved. If it was, I would think that it would have been noted in the MoS and the document would have made it to the consensus reached area. Thomas Lerman 17:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) There also was the start of a discussion on "What is consensus?" on the Manual of Style Discussion Page back in June. It appears to me that further discussion is needed on this matter so we can reach "consensus" on "consensus." (Is this a redundant tautology?) Jbparker 01:27, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


 * As I recall, someone is going to report back (not me) on their findings on this subject in Wikipedia in today's meeting. Thomas Lerman 17:15, 1 September 2009 (UTC)