On 08/03/18 18:06, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2018-03-08 17:49:35 +0000 (+0000), Flint WALRUS wrote: >> Pretty easy, put the PTG online with a livestream on >> YouTube/Hangout/whatever platform that will then be saved and could even be >> watched later on! >> >> It’s just a matter of some hardware and a decent internet bandwidth that’s >> already available to almost every places where a PTG took place. >> >> Problem solved. > [...] > > Have you ever actually tried it? I know this seems simple to "solve" > with technology, but put 50 people in a room having a heated > conversation (or sometimes several conversations at once) and then > try to bridge some people in via phone, video conference, whatever > and see how it works out in reality. > > The times it's been tried, either the remote participants get > frustrated because nobody is paying attention to them/speaking into > microphones/keeping discussion to one thread at a time, or the > in-person participants get frustrated because they have to start > acting like they're all on separate telephones and drag down the > bandwidth of the conversation to the point where it may as well be > 100% remote/separate participation anyway. > > We've made it work to varying degrees in the past, but it's not so > simple as you would seem to imply no matter how good the technology.
I would echo ^. As a remote employee for ~ 5 years, I have a large amount of experience being the person at the far end of a laptop / phone / etc. Some of the VC systems work well, but they are expensive, complex systems, with multiple mics, speakers, and cameras. I am not saying we shouldn't try it, but lets not get our hopes up. > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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