Hi Jeremy Thank you for inviting us into your livingroom (and a glass of red wine).
It was my first time as an attendee at a videoconference, however it turned of to be a both very enlightening and joyfull experience :-) I used my TWsOS (Puppy Linux) remaster [1] in a live seesion (booted into ram from an usb) - and I actually tried to record the "Google Hangout" with RecordMyDesktop [2], however it didn't work because of too little RAM - and I lost the video in the process... :-( Next time I will use a frugal installation [3] on an usb stick.. I wrote a small summary of our meeting on our Danish TiddlyWiki group [4]: Here's a 'quick and dirty' translation into English: "Hello TW-afficionados I was fortunate to attend a "Google Hangout" with some of the "Giants" in the TW-business. Jeremy had a small written agenda - and I guess his plan was to stick to it, after everyone had said in what direction they wanted TW5 to go.. After a few minutes some of the more innovative ideas were discussed and demoed ... Alex Hough: had questions regarding intuitive recording of images and annotation using iPads and phones ... Måns: demanded a simple interface (for newcommers/students) and an easy way to use an expanded list macro (a lá ForEachTiddlerPlugin - already covered in the TW5 documentation) Alex and I got answers to our questions - and then there was a lively debate, demoing and talk about possibiliteis for the userinterface ... Mario Pietz: talked about Graphic Maps and showed us a very impressive yet simple library for creating connections of nodes......(Don't remember the name?) Jeremy: demonstrated Project Cecily (ZUI zooming interface) Eric Shulman: demoed MoveablePanels and the unlimited scrollable canvas... It was quite cozy - Jeremy enjoyed a glass of red wine and had some crackers along the way (now I know why they are called "crackers" ...) > Alex galloped around in his children's room to find a suitable position to enjoy the hangout from. Mario was probably the one who really had prepared himself for a hangout - I guess he sat in his best armchair with a webcam and microphone set up properly from the start ;-) Eric was a very good listener even though only the lower part of his face was visible and his video signal often disappeared and came back - in our 1 ½ hour conversation. (Atlantic disturbances?) I was NOT the participants who spoke the best English - but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves (and seemed to be thrilled by the fact that I was able to keep my pipe "boiling" during most of the meeting) I had started a TWsOS live session up when I signed up for the meeting - and was a little anxious to see if it would work with video and audio on this tiny distro (Puppy Linux). When I signed up a dialogue popped up, which allowed me to choose which type of installer I would use in order to participate. There were several different types of Linux (32 or 64 bits) packages. I selected "google talkplugin_current_i386.deb" - installed it - and a popup window with the video chat was instantly updated ... I still needed to open retrovol (audio mixer) and turn up the internal microphone. (I also used headphones - which is very recommendable btw...) I tried to make a screencast of the hangout - but ran out of space in the tmp/ram dir (low ram) - and had to abandon my little "sideproject". Next time I will boot from a frugal install and see if it helps ... I would recommend Google hangout for anyone with a webcam and a working microphone -> but I think you have to have to try it a few times before you are able to completely focus on the topics you want to discuss... On the other hand, "free talking" together with video *is* fun and the fact that you can share a view of your desktop is perfect for quick demoing. Let me know if you would want to try Google hangout - It's particularly suitable for displaying desktop and demonstration of what you're. doing in a browser. It is no problem to be MANY attendees at the same live chat at once" Cheers Måns Mårtensson [1] http://xn--mns-ula.dk/TWsOS/ [2] http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php [3] http://puppylinux.org/wikka/InstallationFrugal [4] http://www.linux-abc.dk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1837#p9118 Den tirsdag den 14. maj 2013 09.52.27 UTC+2 skrev Jeremy Ruston: > > Last night's inaugural hangout was fun and useful, and thank you to the > participants for taking the time. There was some spirited discussion of: > > * What people find valuable in TW classic, and want to see in TW5 > * Using TW5 on iPad/iPhone > * What should be the boundaries of the core? > * Keeping the interface simple > * A demo of several of Eric's classic plugins > > You can see the faces here: > > https://plus.google.com/109308865556494599029/posts/4uVGV8Mrn11 > > I didn't manage to figure out how to record the session, but will try to > sort that out for next time. > > I've started a poll for the time and date of the next hangout: > > http://doodle.com/7kup9xqny23pucep > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. 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