On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Happy-melon <[email protected]> wrote: > "Steven Walling" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Guillaume Paumier >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Setting up the live video feed isn't easy, and taking notes in real >>> time is pretty time- and energy-consuming, but we can make efforts to >>> continue to do it in the future, if it's worth it. We'd just like to >>> know how useful it is. >>> >> >> The EtherPad notes were especially useful for me. The live video was less >> useful because of the time difference. The videos after the fact are fun, >> so >> if it was a combination of notes and post-produced videos I'd be happy. >> >> Thanks for all the hard work on documentation. It sure was nice to read >> the >> blog posts as you all went along. >> >> Steven > > Being in a similar timezone avoided that problem for me, and it was a > welcome distraction from RL to watch some of the videos; but I didn't gain > anything particular out of it being live because there was no obvious way to > interact back. Admittedly I was hampered by being unable to use IRC, but > were people on it 'live' during the event? I was tempted to drop a question > onto the EtherPad and see if anyone picked it up. > > I suspect that there actually was a reasonable amount of scope for remote > interactivity, just that it wasn't as obvious or well-advertised as it could > have been. But since the only advantage to *outputting* media feeds in > real-time is if remote viewers can *input* straight back, that's something > that would be worth consolidating in the future.
I was only really available for the Tech Days, so I guess it's a bit different. However, I dropped in and followed the conversation. It wasn't particularly clear what I was supposed to do with my opinion — the etherpad is generally considered a record of what was said in person, and I wasn't necessarily comfortable adding my own thoughts in there. At the same time, I had mixed results asking questions in the etherpad chat. So I agree with HM that, while it was pretty easy to follow what was going on (and I have to give big props to the people who set it up like that), it wasn't too obvious how I could actually contribute to the discussion. -- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
