On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:51 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > Jonathan Steffan wrote: > > 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 > > > Jonathan, IIRC you were one of the team members that didn't have a > microphone. How did that work for you? If we are to use voice seriously, I would get a good microphone. I will just need to know what the plan is. The last meeting was lacking a true "transcriber" and there were some non-syncs between voice and non-voice users. If most people at least listened to the conference, it would not be as bad. I do think that we should have a per meeting appointed transcriber that tries to bring terse statements into irc or we find some voice to text software to test out. There was a nice lag when I was asked questions over voice and then needed to answer over irc, but it did not bother me. Overall I really enjoyed it even with not being able to talk back via voice and request we move forward in building what needs to be built to make this a viable meeting solution. Jonathan Steffan daMaestro
