Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Next board meeting: this evening, with a different format

2009-10-21 Thread Angela
2009/10/20 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Due to technical limitations, it won't be possible to have this part of the meeting open to the public. Have you considered using a free conference call number instead? That way people can phone in any way they like, with Skype, or with a normal

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Next board meeting: this evening, with a different format

2009-10-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/10/21 Angela bees...@gmail.com: 2009/10/20 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: Due to technical limitations, it won't be possible to have this part of the meeting open to the public. Have you considered using a free conference call number instead? That way people can phone in any way they

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Next board meeting: this evening, with a different format

2009-10-21 Thread AndrewRT
How does everyone think it went on Tuesday? Personally I found the Skype part to be much more productive than IRC - it was a lot easier to discuss potentially contentious and complex issues over Skype than over IRC. The main negatives were the fact that it wasn't open to our supporters to listen

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Next board meeting: this evening, with a different format

2009-10-21 Thread Brian McNeil
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 14:56 -0700, AndrewRT wrote: I notice now there's actually a Skype extra called Pamela for Skype which can be used to record. It's available as a free 30 day trial or €18 to buy - something like that might be worth doing, particularly if we could get one for free! There

[Wikimediauk-l] Next board meeting: this evening, with a different format

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Peel
Hi all, The next board meeting is this evening: Tuesday 20 October 2009, 8.30-10.30pm BST. The agenda is at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetings/2009-10-20/Agenda Following from a conversation at the in-person board meeting, we'll be trying something different this meeting to try to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Next board meeting: this evening, with a different format

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Peel
On 20 Oct 2009, at 14:25, Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/10/20 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: That technical limitation. :-) Also, there are concerns about the required connection speed for hosting a multi-way conference like this (as I understand it, the calls are all routed through the host

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Next board meeting: this evening, with a different format

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Peel
On 20 Oct 2009, at 14:45, Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/10/20 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net: I'm not aware of a way to record a Skype conference without requiring an external device (i.e. recording the signal to the speaker, rather than digitally within the computer); if anyone knows a way to