kde-sig voice conference call for tomorrow's sig meeting

[Jaroslav Reznik]

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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