On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Stormy Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> Regardless of whether it's Google services or not, I'd like to put in a > word for video calls. > > In the past year and a half, I've come to really appreciate video calls. > In my experience, meetings held via video are universally more on track and > productive. I much prefer them over phone only calls now. > > Yes, in fact, I think part of the reason we got news-test.gnome.org going so quickly was that we were able to figure out all that is required and then get things moving quickly.. I think hangouts will even let you share your computer desktop which even VNC doesn't do quite job of that. > They do tend to have more technical difficulties and they often get > started more slowly as people figure out technical difficulties. IRC, > etherpad, and even phone, don't seem to have that problem. They also > require a good internet connection and the right hardware. > > This is true. I wish we could find a good open source platform for this kind of thing. I've searched a lot but nothing seems to be up to par. sri > Stormy > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Karen Sandler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, March 16, 2012 6:59 am, Allan Day wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Bryen M Yunashko <[email protected] >> > >> > wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 16:00 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> >>> I have setup a doodle for a marketing meeting using google hangouts. >> >>> Please RSVP what would be the best time. If I'm missing a convenient >> >>> time zone, please let me know. All the times are London times, (GMT >> >>> -7 for west coast, -6 for mountain, etc) >> >>> >> >> How come the meeting has to be in some Google service instead of our >> own >> >> marketing IRC channel? >> > >> > Google Hangouts are really nice for video conferencing. I find them >> > more effective than IRC for meetings, plus it's more personal. >> > >> > But we can use IRC if anyone has a serious objection. >> > >> >> FWIW, I'd much rather use IRC than google services :) >> >> Karen >> >> > Allan >> > -- >> > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org >> > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ >> > -- >> > marketing-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > >> >> >> -- >> marketing-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > >
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