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
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