An all-way video linkup is not necessarily required. The two use cases would be: * Topic presentations - during presentation, one way voice of presenter, questions via text or queue via text, similar to radio talkback show. - possibly live broadcast video. - maybe Discord+Twitch [1]. - maybe Teamspeak+OpenBroadcast [2] * General business - all-way voice only. Check the tools used by gamers [3]. Discord is not on that list but it compared favorably when I was researching it a while ago. [1] http://www.pcgamer.com/one-year-after-its-launch-discord-is-the-best-voip-se... [2] https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/teamspeak-3-plugin.40/ [3] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/dont-get-fragged-5-must-have-free-voice-chat-cl... cheers -ben On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
My recommendation is that you use a live text chat whatever else you use. Generally speaking most video chat clients also include a text chat. A live text chat would allow for more people to participate especially people on slow connections. Of course the more people join on a video chat the bigger the latency. Voice chat is also tricky for long conversations because you have no indication when someone wants to talk or when someone is about to talk so people tend to talk one over the other which happens also on video chat too.
So by starting with a live text you allow a lot of people to participate to the coversation, also in a live text chat you can have several conversations going on at the same time which makes things also a lot easier and faster.
I have done Google Hangouts in the past, it was ok, the advantage of the hangouts and video chat is that it is dead easy to share a screen so its easy to show people what you talking about. I would not try Google Hangouts or any other video chat with more than 10 people, it would be crazy 20 people trying to find an opportunity to speak and the latency making things harder.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:14 PM stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
Hi esteban
to get started we should use something that does not require videos and see how it works.
My teenagers at home use discord.... :(
and they told me it works well.
Stef
Le 14/9/16 à 14:50, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit :
Hi,
Last board meeting we decided to take some actions to improve communication and one of the ideas we had is to start some regular meetings each month, to talk about current release development issues.
Since Iâm the one who will do it, I decided:
- I will handle those meetings every last Tuesday of every month at 16h UTC (So people from America-The-Continent can join⦠Yes, is a continent, not a country) - I will send main topic one week earlier (but it will be an open QA/brainstorm session). - You can send me topics you want to discuss anytime - I will *invite* (I mean: force) relevant people for topics to talk (for example, Denis to talk about remote debugging, Pavel/Guille/Christophe about bootstrap)
I still do not know the medium: - terf? problem is that a) everybody needs to install a client (is not heavy, but I think there is no linux client) and b) I still donât know how the thing works ;) (but it would be cool to use a smalltalk app). - hangouts? Iâm fed up with the 10 limit⦠we (the consortium) are willing to pay some (not *much*, but some) to have better sessions (we need them also for consortium meetings who always runs out of slots). - other?
Well, I will sort out this before the meeting :)
Anyway⦠next tech meeting will be⦠(suspenseâ¦)â¦
Tuesday 27 September 16h UTC
cheers, Esteban