A full transcription shouldn't be necessary. Just bring a summary of discussion points back to the list, along with any recommendations. The list can then sort through it and make decisions.
We have off-list discussions all the time (IM, IRC, in-person). We don't transcribe those. We just bring the discussion onto the list for wrapping it up with everybody present. Skype concalls are no different than these other forums. Cheers, -g On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 13:18, Craig L Russell <craig.russ...@oracle.com> wrote: > My $0.02: > > The business of Apache is conducted on email. > > It's fine to have a periodic conference call among interested project > participants, as long as (my list, not normative): > > no project or community member is excluded (e.g. by posting the call > information only to a private list) > > no decisions are made during the call > > all topics discussed are subsequently posted via email to the project > members > > Having an audio transcript is interesting but doesn't pass my email test. So > I'd have to say that someone needs to transcribe the audio into email. > > Craig > > On Nov 19, 2010, at 9:29 AM, James Carman wrote: > >> I don't know about this. Whatever we do has to be trackable and >> "open", so I don't know about this Skype stuff. Requiring folks to >> watch a video or listen to an audio recording rather than reading a >> transcript is probably not a good idea. I'm copying the general list >> to see what others have to say. >> >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din >> <nour.moham...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Good idea >>> >>> +1 on the Skype monthly meeting. >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Alexander Krasnukhin >>> <the.malk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> At least it makes me feel ISIS is really going somewhere. I don't know >>>> how >>>> to explain this. E.g. there are some real ALIVE people involved :). >>>> >>>> Monthly is good. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Mike Burton >>>> <mi...@mycosystems.co.uk>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes very useful interesting and enjoyable, thanks for organising it. >>>>> Yes >>>>> monthly similar would be good. >>>>> >>>>> Mike >>>>> >>>>> On 19 Nov 2010, at 10:49, Dan Haywood <dkhayw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> First off, thanks to all for attending, and I really enjoyed the >>>>> >>>>> opportunity. Hope it was useful. It was nice, actually, to read the >>>>> transcript on the Skype IM call afterwards (I didn't get the oppo to do >>>>> that >>>>> while I was demo'ing). >>>>>> >>>>>> Second, my apols that I didn't have the demo working. Of course, >>>>>> after >>>>> >>>>> the call finished I figured out the problem in about 2 minutes. At any >>>>> rate, the details on running the demo for yourselves are on the >>>>> "SmokeTest" >>>>> page on the wiki [1]. >>>>>> >>>>>> Third, per a recording, like Kevin I also recorded the call using >>>>> >>>>> CallGraph, though mine seems to have recorded ok. It's about 92Mb, >>>>> recorded it in stereo, and what Skype did is distribute the voices >>>>> across >>>>> the spectrum, which I think is quite nice. Anyway, I've just uploaded >>>>> it to >>>>> my dropbox account and I'll post the URL on isis-private. (If you >>>>> aren't >>>>> subscribed there, contact me directly). >>>>>> >>>>>> Lastly, it'd be nice to do a similar call like that now and again. We >>>>> >>>>> could perhaps set one up every month, attendance purely optional. >>>>> Thoughts? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> Dan >>>>>> >>>>>> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/ISIS/smoketest.html >>>>>> >>>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>>>> >>>>>> On 18/11/2010 20:08, Kevin Meyer - KMZ wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Dan, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for organizing the call. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I was not able to record the entire call - Of the 56 minutes >>>>>>> captured, a >>>>>>> lot of it is silence. I'm not sure if it is an issue with the app or >>>>>>> my >>>>>>> machine. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Anyway, thanks to all who participated, it was good to be able to >>>>>>> associate voices with the emails. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>> Kevin >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Alexander >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Thanks >>> - Mohammad Nour >>> Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition 2.0 User >>> Guide) >>> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html >>> - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour >>> - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com >>> ---- >>> "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep >>> moving" >>> - Albert Einstein >>> >>> "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a >>> professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less >>> than your best." >>> - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship >>> >>> "Stay hungry, stay foolish." >>> - Steve Jobs >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > Craig L Russell > Architect, Oracle > http://db.apache.org/jdo > 408 276-5638 mailto:craig.russ...@oracle.com > P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp! > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
