On Mon, 21 May 2007, Christopher Mahan wrote:
Hey, Sun/OpenSolaris is asking how they can get people interested, how best to grow a community. My telling what it would take to get me interested is aligned with that goal, no?
That's all good, but I think you should be happy with what you can get, not unhappy about what you don't get.;-)
I would be willing to do that, but for a three hour meeting, I would need about 9-12 hours to do the transcription. I probably need until Sunday night. Also, having any speaking participants introduce themselves would be good for the transcript.
Ok, I'll definitely let you do that. I record all the meetings. I'll get you the info to listen and transcribe it, doesn't have to be right away, but if you could do that within a week, that would probably be useful to folks. I would agree. Up until now there hasn't been anyone willing to do that, but that's kinda how grass roots works.
Full time job, wife, school, 2 year old kid. friends all over the world (France, Japan, many US states... even in socal most are more than 1 hour drive away)
Yep, me too! In fact, most of my household speaks Japanese, I kinda fumble at it, but my kids speak it as their native language. They were born in the states, but they speak Japanese as their first language.
El Segundo is too far on weekday nights. 405 is a nightmare until 7:30Pm. It would take 1.5 hours to get there (less on lucky days)
Oh, come one! If you head outta the valley at 7:00pm, you could get down there in about 40 minutes, tops, you wouldn't miss much.
I used to live by Balboa/Victory, and ran a user group down by the airport at the HP building. I know the traffic very well. But it's also doable.
We have some traffic in Silicon Valley also, there's people coming down from SF city, east bay, etc...I've had people drive to my user group from Monterey, and some from Fresno. Not regularly, but it has happened.
An option is doing an audio recording, and put that on a wiki with a summary of the audio, with mugshots of the participants. I think genunix wiki would be great for that (I can host the audio if needed)
I'll tell you, I keep making a case that we need live video, or at least live audio, with video updates. Even if we had software that updated every 15 seconds over the net, and could have a call-in, the polycom would work.
I've also tried to get boundry mikes, which is not as easy, there should be boundry mikes this meeting. I have mixed opinions so far, the speaker microphone didn't work well for the call-in last meeting.
IRC + logs on the web is another option. More conversational less presentational, I think. Although you lose a lot of the situational value.
That's so 70s technology...I'd rather provide video. I'd like to do it with RealPlayer10, since it's included with SX. We fought to get RealPlayer for friggin' years, now we have it and haven't leveraged it at all...:-(
By the time we get AcroRead, nobody will be using PDFs anymore...<gd&r> -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
