The asterisk paradox

[Mike McGrath]

Jonathan Steffan wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:30 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>   
>> There was some discussion at the last meeting about how to use asterisk 
>> in the future for meetings or even if we should.  This has brought up an 
>> interesting problem:
>>
>> Early adoption of asterisk is slow because not everyone has the 
>> equipment to use it.  People don't feel compelled to get the equipment 
>> because adoption is slow.
>>
>> So what do we do about it?  I feel very strongly asterisk as a medium is 
>> much more efficient to use then IRC and helps bring the team together to 
>> work as a more cohesive unit.  I also believe it will do the same for 
>> other groups.  But we cannot do the meetings in asterisk at this time 
>> because it raises the barrier to entry by too much and provides no 
>> meeting logs.  So I'd like to propose the following possible solutions.
>>
>> 1)  Meet 15 minutes before or after the meeting for a 
>> supplemental-meeting in asterisk to shake out some things.  Then 
>> continue with the meeting in IRC as normal.
>> 2)  Meetings in IRC are generally very slow, it might be worth it to do 
>> the meetings as normal but also have people log in to asterisk to bs and 
>> generally just chat, get to know each other a bit better.
>> 3) Do as we did last week, have people who can't talk join the 
>> conference anyway and ask questions in the chat room while having 
>> someone transcribe and provide minutes.
>>     
>
> +1
>   
Jonathan, IIRC you were one of the team members that didn't have a 
microphone.  How did that work for you?

    -Mike