Hi Lars,
- People who had been invited to this meeting and can not attend are
able to join via voice conferencing and/or Skype.
Skype =! VoIP. One of the marketing or development goals for 2010,
should be a voice infrastructure to go with the mailing list
infrastructure.
we have found a quite good conferencing service that provides dial-in in
various countries and will be used for the upcoming marketing call. It
does not cover all countries, but it's a good start. If there's a need
for more, we can develop something.
We are missing:
voice conferencing
No - see the upcoming marketing call I plan to have regularly. ;-) And
also see this wiki page that has been online for some years and
announced on the lists, barely noticed by anyone:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Phone_Conferences
...and surely would not be able to have two days of meetings from
home without being disturbed...
A well-known phenomenon.
Right. And if we have two days packed with meetings, for me the best way
to do this is face to face, especially when it's about branding.
Without a context, there is not much of a way to even guess if that is
reasonable. Do the tasks proposed warrant a physical meeting?
I think they do. If we have a lot to show and see (branding), face to
face is better than virtually, I think.
Skype is not an option for many people. Regular SIP-based VoIP is, at
least technically, available. HOWTOs are missing, though. I know
someone working on voice conferencing, but will have to check whether
the results will be useful for OOo.
See the above wiki page, and wait for the first marketing call. :-)
Nothing ever is. However, having a standing VoIP-conferencing system
for OOo would at least reduce the need for travel or increase the
results from some online meetings.
A voice conferencing system (I prefer normal phone network to VoIP, but
that's a technical detail) is a good thing, yes, and we are working on
it and testing it out. However, it won't be an option for all meetings.
For the upcoming meeting in Hamburg, I seek for your assistance in our
funding request. I think everyone involved knows very well that we have
to take care of the carbon footprint as well as of the budget, and I
hope that you trust the involved people enough to believ in their
estimation on which form of meeting might be the best one.
For me, Hamburg is nearly half a day (!) of travelling, and I surely
don't do this for fun, so I hope everyone here puts that much trust in
me to recognize how important a face to face meeting in this matter is.
Florian
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