Good idea but seems it's not yet available for Mac which would be a limitation for some of us. Well worth keeping an eye on though. Meanwhile perhaps a regular /voice/ conf call?
Mike Burton On 8 Nov 2010, at 22:52, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > >
