README for meetings

meetings/README.md

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+# C# Language Design Meetings
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+C# Language Design Meetings (LDM for short) are meetings by the C# Language Design Team and invited guests to investigate, design and ultimately decide on features to enter the C# language. It is a creative meeting, where active design work happens, not just a decision body. 
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+Every C# language design meeting is represented by a meeting notes file in this folder.
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+## Purpose of meetings notes
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+Meeting notes serve the dual purposes of
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+- recording decisions so they can be acted upon
+- recording rationale so we can return later and see why we did things the way we did
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+The latter has proved surprisingly useful over time!
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+## Life cycle of meeting notes
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+- If upcoming design meetings have a specific agenda, there may be a meeting notes file with that agenda even before the meeting happens
+- After the meeting notes will be saved directly here. 
+- Usually they will be raw notes in need of subsequent cleaning up. If that's the case, they will be clearly marked as such, and a work item will track the task of cleaning up the notes.
+- When the notes are finalized, a notification is sent to the mailing list. Discussion can happen there.
+- If the notes impact current proposals, work items will track updating those proposals.
+- When updated, the proposals link back to the meeting where the proposal was discussed.
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