1. The sound quality was fine from what I saw and heard. I was on a desktop computer using the Blue Jeans thing (which had the YouTube video playing) and IRC chat -- and etherpad
2. Session notes were done live in Wiki Markup format on the etherpad which resulted in a truly great cooperative effort to list detailed minutes. It allowed a super quick publish to Wiki which was ideal. I was really happy to see that and hope it can be a model going forward. I would suggest having a "template" of information pre-filled out to facilitate the notes going forward. Having a timekeeper would probably necessitate having one person designated to put time-stamps on main points. I think if there's consensus then cooperatively this could be done? It seems like babysteps here -- having transparent, detailed notes that are quickly turned around -- might be the priority over the time-stamps but this is a logical and reasonable request, I agree. 3. Agree on licensing default for published videos. Ideally the video should be embedded on the Minutes page as a supporting resource. An additional comment: I'm new to both Wiki-l and learning more about the governance of WMF. I was very happy with this meeting and the efforts made by Katherine to be transparent and up front. However, I think this is a lot of pressure and from my new perspective it is seeming to come down on one competent person. I think this is a tough and somewhat problematic strategic position for any one person to be in, and for any institution to rely upon. I hope that there are more people who can take leadership roles at WMF who would share this load. Assuming the consensus is for this approach to governance. - Erika *Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle> Secretary, Wikimedia NYC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the link. Handful of quick points: > > 1. The sound quality is poor, to a level where I find it quite hard to > work out what is being said half the time especially as the speech is > quite rapid. It would be worth investing in a bit of better audio kit > for these videoed discussions. If the video is being captured > remotely, better results might be possible by having a local capture, > at least of the audio. > > 2. It would be great to have a tiny index as a text note on youtube at > the time of publication so that, say, on an hour+ long meeting like > this it would be possible to skip around the video to when new > questions are addressed. Though the session notes are useful > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director/May_2016_office_hours/Video-based_session_notes > >, > there is no relationship to timing. > > 3. The video has been published on a standard youtube license. Can > those that manage these videos apply a free license that would be > allowed on Wikimedia Commons as a default please? > > As a side note, there was quite a few minutes of in-crowd banter at > the start, an awkward drop-out mid-way for a couple of minutes and > another award minute or two at the end where the meeting was being > accidentally recorded to youtube after it ended. It might be good to > edit these out of the published version considering it is a public > record. > > Thanks, > Fae > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
