Hi Florian,
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
during OOoCon, the idea of voice/audio conferences have been mentioned
several times, and I'd like to pick up two aspects.
- Many large companies, including Sun, do have voice conferencing
systems to invite partners to when doing three-party-calls. We don't
have access to our own system. Is this a dire need for MarCons, have you
ever needed a professional audioconferencing system? I've compiled a
list of free services a while ago at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Phone_Conferences - any country
not covered that is in need? We have some funding from the marketing
project, and given time and technical expertise, we could set up our own
system based on SIP and Asterisk, but before evaluating, I'd like to
know if there is any need at all.
We had, long time ago, this kind of conferences to organize the
localization process. Rafaela was organizing them. I think it's quiet
effective because reactions and decision are quickly made, but there are
some difficulties:
- depending on where you are located, the communication may be
difficult. For l10n, I was in Africa and the conversation was made of
holes and echo making it difficult to follow. It might be different with
SIP, I don't know
- language, it's more easy to read than to speak when you're not fluent
with English and the different accents (mine for example is horrible ;)
may complicate the comprehension.
- We've also discovered that we have some lack of communication, (not
only) in the marketing project. The idea during the marketing meeting
was to have monthly audio conferences to keep everyone up to date. What
do you think of it? I see some issues here - time and that some might be
more convenient with using text-based IRC - but I'd like to open the
discussion. From Mozilla I know they even do regular conference calls
open for the press, so we might pick that one up...
That's a good idea. I'm currently thinking of a mechanism to enhance the
inter-project communication also. I think we could take advantage of a
better communication between says l10n/QA/Documentation for example.
Kind regards
Sophie
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