Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi folks, > > we're experimenting with Hangout on Air + IRC as a meeting technology > that could potentially be used for various WMF gatherings to further > open up our communication both with remote staff and the world at > large. (For those who don't know, Hangout on Air is a nifty new > feature of Google Hangout that lets you broadcast a live YouTube > stream of a meeting you're organizing.) > > As a pilot, we're starting what could potentially become a weekly > engineering chat. The first one will be on October 18: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2012-10-18 > > Anyone will be able to join the meeting via IRC to participate and > watch the YouTube stream. Sign up if you want, or just join the > meeting when it happens.
Hi. Thanks for working on this. It sounds neat. :-) I think the current meetings page is desperately missing instructions for joining the meeting. For example, are participants going to need a Gmail account prior to the meeting so that they can use Google Hangout? Does using Google Hangout require any advance preparation such as installing a plugin? Which IRC channel should meeting participants join? (And of course depending on who you're targeting, there are a whole host of other questions like "what is IRC?" and "how can I easily join an IRC discussion [without an IRC client]?", though I'm assuming that since this is a tech meeting, maybe this isn't as necessary.) I'd offer to help with the documentation/instructions, but unfortunately I don't know most of the answers. Any help you could give would be great. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
