My recommendation is that you use a live text chat whatever else you use. Generally speaking most video chat clients also include a text chat. A live text chat would allow for more people to participate especially people on slow connections. Of course the more people join on a video chat the bigger the latency. Voice chat is also tricky for long conversations because you have no indication when someone wants to talk or when someone is about to talk so people tend to talk one over the other which happens also on video chat too.
So by starting with a live text you allow a lot of people to participate to the coversation, also in a live text chat you can have several conversations going on at the same time which makes things also a lot easier and faster. I have done Google Hangouts in the past, it was ok, the advantage of the hangouts and video chat is that it is dead easy to share a screen so its easy to show people what you talking about. I would not try Google Hangouts or any other video chat with more than 10 people, it would be crazy 20 people trying to find an opportunity to speak and the latency making things harder. On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:14 PM stepharo <steph...@free.fr> wrote: > Hi esteban > > to get started we should use something that does not require videos and > see how it works. > > My teenagers at home use discord.... :( > > and they told me it works well. > > > Stef > > Le 14/9/16 à 14:50, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Last board meeting we decided to take some actions to improve > communication and one of the ideas we had is to start some regular meetings > each month, to talk about current release development issues. > > > > Since I’m the one who will do it, I decided: > > > > - I will handle those meetings every last Tuesday of every month at 16h > UTC (So people from America-The-Continent can join… Yes, is a continent, > not a country) > > - I will send main topic one week earlier (but it will be an open > QA/brainstorm session). > > - You can send me topics you want to discuss anytime > > - I will *invite* (I mean: force) relevant people for topics to talk > (for example, Denis to talk about remote debugging, Pavel/Guille/Christophe > about bootstrap) > > > > I still do not know the medium: > > - terf? problem is that a) everybody needs to install a client (is not > heavy, but I think there is no linux client) and b) I still don’t know how > the thing works ;) (but it would be cool to use a smalltalk app). > > - hangouts? I’m fed up with the 10 limit… we (the consortium) are > willing to pay some (not *much*, but some) to have better sessions (we need > them also for consortium meetings who always runs out of slots). > > - other? > > > > Well, I will sort out this before the meeting :) > > > > Anyway… next tech meeting will be… (suspense…)… > > > > Tuesday 27 September 16h UTC > > > > cheers, > > Esteban > > > > >
