sounds fun. I have no skype though so just need to dig it. One important aspect: The Apache Software Foundation is very interested in traceability. There should be no decisions solely be made upon skype discussions having no detailed explanation of the why and how on a mailing list archive. But I agree that IRC and skype are really nice for getting fresh ideas down to earth together very quickly. That is the reason why lots of projects use a chat bot which logs the conversations (in OWB we use the CIA bot). We must also always justify/explain/present our final solution (+ other options and the reasons why they don't got picked) in a summary mail at least!
LieGrue, strub --- On Mon, 11/8/10, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dan Haywood <[email protected]> > Subject: Regular Skype conf. calls? > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, November 8, 2010, 10:52 PM > There's been a few off-list > conversations (between Nour, Siegfried and myself, at least) > about having regular virtual get togethers on Skype. > Now that Skype [1] has group video conferencing, I think > this would be a good way to help the community develop. > > Questions: > 1. do we think it'd be good idea? and if so... > 2. how often ought we to do this? > 3. what time of the day ought we to have the call? > > Obviously we couldn't realistically expect everyone to > attend every call, but we could perhaps have a system > whereby someone volunteers to be the host, ie they will > definitely be on the call, and anyone else is optional > (perhaps a wiki sign-on sheet to indicate attendance). > > Thoughts? Have any of the mentors done this on other > projects, and to what success/lack of? > > Dan > > [1] http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/features/allfeatures/group-video-calls/ > > >
