I like the idea of talking at same time. There is something that you
get from oral conversations that you don't get from typing. I find
myself reaching for the phone when I want to get to the heart of a
complicate matter quickly, and writing takes too long because your
subject relies not just on what you know but what others know as well.
Let's use both, but use them each where appropriate.
Either way seeing things can be important. I've just been using VNC to
create and share a virtual workspace (rather than my whole desktop)
where everybody can grab the mouse and point at things. VNC is
available on all platforms, although the server needs to support
geometry settings to allow a virtual screen to be set up.
Rob
PS I have a Jabber account, and on that I can also set up voice and
video calls, although I'm not sure that it works with more than two.
On 09/11/10 06:55, Kevin Meyer wrote:
My 2c:
I definitely don't have the bandwidth for video, but would be
interested in attending by voice.
Again, depends on date and time zone. At the moment I dedicate
Mondays to full-time non-contract work (i.e. Mondays are good for me)
and for personal reasons would prefer something between 08h00 to 16h00,
GMT+2. If it's not a Monday, then after 18h00 GMT+2 would be preferred.
Obviously, exceptions can be made... ;)
What freeware apps support shared desktop/applications for such a
group call? If anyone wants to demo something, for example.
I may not have the bandwidth (between 20 and 40kB/s on a good day,
100ms to 200ms latency).
For documentation purposes, can anyone record the audio?
I guess, also, someone would have to take minutes! This requires
an agenda? Urk...
On Tue, November 9, 2010 00:52, Dan Haywood 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?
