-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: >> As an experiment, thought it would an interesting experiment to take >> advantage of fedora talk, >> http://talk.fedoraproject.org/ >> as part of our kde sig meeting tomorrow, >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-11-03 > > I think that's just useless. IRC is working just fine, it allows > participating from everywhere (whereas voice requires a room which is both > quiet enough to talk undisturbed and noise-tolerant enough to allow talking, > such rooms are hard to come by in office environments like my university), > it allows for easy logging and it doesn't require a microphone. And the > "higher bandwidth" of voice communication is quite nonexistent if somebody > has to type up everything to IRC and read back everything from IRC, in fact > I think that'll kill communication entirely, so it doesn't make sense to use > both. (And I'm not even sure I can really talk faster than I can type. I > don't stutter when typing. ;-) ) IRC also supports multithreaded conversations. Granted, the onus is shifted off to the users, but picking threads out of text is easier than out of an audio stream. > I don't even have a microphone for my main desktop at the moment; as for my > laptop, its builtin microphone might also suck for VoIP, and having to shout > into it and getting the laptop to shout back from its speakers will also > worsen the "appropriate room" problem, so an external headset might be > needed for effective VoIP use there. As for participating with a regular > phone, a 1-hour phonecall to a foreign country (the US or UK) is going to be > a big money sink (and I can't do it from the university phones, they're > locked for calls to foreign countries), so that's not really a viable > option, I'm afraid. Same here. > I'll be at the university during the meeting tomorrow, I don't think I'll be > able to join over VoIP. People won't like me talking to my laptop. ;-) And yet people walking around talking to bugs in their ears that you may not be able to see is perfectly acceptable. ;) > Kevin Kofler - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJK76sLAAoJEKaxavVX4C1XwqgP/j6nab/oi4UiEFvN1z2xu2ST aXgCM7GFmGMbUCCnhP8wxAvzeTprT5BEu1C7Gs3yUnZApYlqpADW9pI6Me49BJy8 A3GURBz7zTumjxpLRfkYeObV8WXJy832noQaMQEE7wzT2w0dVR1K6wCdwS8Vjpsd nN5r83WaXy2Qg34FSJb+pry4nrd2vVYVfM+lwUfDClWOSmWmEPkvdM3kAg++vNYp Yu0Ck+ejMqq03yCGlU3p2mk/KW4pd1gS2dP6iGR3CEkZvvM8gFSBRF5Rzj0ECHGP 2c6KrUCujG2O/P4N4DXnuEc/zbUqWaubayheni56z09hQs5jRmATuLtI6Yi8ZQyx XfjSCfFnyA2ZfzbtGg/V31wRcOYn/onpEqAEgBITDHLDVQ5j/ZokMsPll/ACyZIm lF79foUtll217js+iI8bZ+UeN7rGKr2fH487usoNsdy3fUFwK2x0PEmNBAbEobw2 XCjJdRh7wIf6xEW7Y1mMmrqW7lF4CGr5zv/mBa/D1SA5acvTC8nHG00rGV1pz1Q1 uyC/0AgMVxSt5hgvqzGVi92cYipHRSd3WoaF0GqICsGdPvGjiwAm677ARxvElSwM W2tD3rrmxWIqAl84/K2I0wG1d5tvy6K3URBUV8n4rprfECxWfYKI/eme/hnC+lTy /mF9npN1lBVNt7wbKaFz =1ERe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
