I've just realized that Skype video group calling isn't a freebie, the
website just talks of trial period of 28 days. I reckon it's worth
trying though, and assess afterwards. I guess we can decide as a
community if it's worth the investment once we've tried it out a couple
of times.
@Mark... re: traceability; we could make it the responsibility of the
"host" to also post a summary of the conversation to isis-dev
@Mike ... seems like Mac support is coming in the next beta
@Alexander ... erm, no news on Linux support. I guess it'll be voice
only for that platform.
Dan
On 08/11/2010 23:07, Mark Struberg wrote:
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/
