On Tuesday 03 November 2009 02:28:17 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), Same problem here, we have open office and every speaker disturbs other people in the office :( But we have meeting rooms, I can try to reserve one as I don't think it's completely bad idea. But to be in chair of "voice meeting" is much more complicated/difficult than IRC meeting. On the other hand - it can help a lot understanding some issues. And for us - non English native it's much more harder to understand - but again - it's great way how to enhance your language skills. Usually all meetings in Red Hat are through voice conference system (it cost too much and quality is toooooooo low :( ). > 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. ;-) ) > > 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. > > 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. ;-) > > Kevin Kofler > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-kde mailing list > fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > -- Jaroslav ?ezn?k <jreznik at redhat.com> Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/
