My 5 cent. Video conference isn't available for Linux too. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Mike Burton <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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/ > > > > > -- Regards, Alexander
