On 20 Oct 2009, at 12:28, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/10/20 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/10/20 Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net>: >>> The first hour of the meeting, 8.30-9.30pm, will be held by Skype >>> conference. This part of the meeting will be discussions, not >>> decisions, and will essentially be focused on making sure that >>> all of >>> the board members are on the same page, and to identify issues that >>> need resolution or deciding upon. Due to technical limitations, it >>> won't be possible to have this part of the meeting open to the >>> public. >> >> What technical limitations? Skype can handle public voice conferences >> with some people voiced and some just listening. > > I take back that last bit - that required the now discontinued > Skypecast. You'll just have to ask non board members to mute > themselves.
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 computer), and also the quality of the connections (I believe this degrades as more people are added in?). Additionally, in order to join in a conference call, they would need to skype call the person hosting the meeting, who would then have to put the conference on mute to answer the call and conference them in. That can really slow down the conference. These may not be problems - in which case we can relax that restriction in the future - but for the first attempt, it's logical to keep things as simple as possible. The aim here is definitely not to exclude people, or become any less transparent, it's to become more effective as a board. Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
