On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:30 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > There was some discussion at the last meeting about how to use asterisk > in the future for meetings or even if we should. This has brought up an > interesting problem: > > Early adoption of asterisk is slow because not everyone has the > equipment to use it. People don't feel compelled to get the equipment > because adoption is slow. > > So what do we do about it? I feel very strongly asterisk as a medium is > much more efficient to use then IRC and helps bring the team together to > work as a more cohesive unit. I also believe it will do the same for > other groups. But we cannot do the meetings in asterisk at this time > because it raises the barrier to entry by too much and provides no > meeting logs. So I'd like to propose the following possible solutions. > > 1) Meet 15 minutes before or after the meeting for a > supplemental-meeting in asterisk to shake out some things. Then > continue with the meeting in IRC as normal. > 2) Meetings in IRC are generally very slow, it might be worth it to do > the meetings as normal but also have people log in to asterisk to bs and > generally just chat, get to know each other a bit better. > 3) Do as we did last week, have people who can't talk join the > conference anyway and ask questions in the chat room while having > someone transcribe and provide minutes. +1 > 4) ? you come up with some. > > In general I think 2) is most practical for now. I'd prefer 3) since I > think everyone can have headphones and listen in to the main meeting and > ask questions in IRC but having someone volunteer to transcribe / > summarize the meeting is a huge commitment. > > This is a big change for us, having said that I think anyone who has > used the technology will agree that it works very well. It will work > even better as people start to use it more and get used to their > equipment and more people feel the need to get a proper mic/head set. > Fedora is very much about new technologies and early adoption. I'd love > for us to be the first OSS community to use asterisk like this, and of > course if Fedora is going to use it, the Infrastructure team should lead > the way. Having said that, any changes like this are raising the > barrier to entry and that is just a dangerous thing to do. As long as > we still have IRC I think we'll be fine but this is something we must > choose as a group. > > Thoughts? Should we look at testing speech to text? Jonathan
