Please, let's not try to make this something either mandated or recommended.
I have a personal dislike for video tutorials which tend to take half an hour to explain something you'd read in ten minutes. Besides, not all of the developers speak English well enough — heck some people have trouble writing and understanding written English, let alone spoken. Honestly, I couldn't get over reading a couple of paragraph here, because the premise itself is too much to bear for me, sorry. Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Pavlos Ratis <daster...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > Everyday we talk to each other about different kind of things related > to Gentoo. IRC and MLs are the primary way of our communication, but > this is only a text-based communication. I think sometimes it would be > better to escape from that. > > That's why I'd like to propose Gentoo Hangouts. Gentoo Hangouts will > be Google+ video Hangouts(video calls) held by teams or developers > independent of a team. The main goal is to have the teams introduce > themselves and discuss about different issues in their Gentoo-related > projects. > > It's a very interactive way of communication and it helps team bonding. The > first Hangout of a team would be good to include a short introduction of > the > team (what,who,where). Also team members will introduce themselves. > Then team should start talking about how a user can contribute and > what is going on in the team. Tips and tricks would be a plus and very > useful to users. Finally, users will be able to ask > questions at G+ and then team members will try to answer the most of > these questions. > > Future team meetings could be also held via video hangouts or interviews > like > dabbot's doing in his personal blog. In addition, developers > independent of the team could organize a hangout along with other > developers to discuss different topics or to have a > Gentoo-related chit-chat. Users could also participate into this video > calls. > > It's very easy to decide the host of the talk. Maybe the team leads > would be proper > for that or someone from the PR. One of the major issues is the > difference in timezone and the workload of each developer. However, I > think it would be great to find 1 hour to > participate. Teams could use a site like http://doodle.com to organize > the Hangout and find an hour that fit to their schedule. > > Except from a camera and a microphone requirement is a Google account and > www-client/google-talkplugin package which is already in the tree. > > It would be great to have teams introduce themselves and inform users in a > more interactive way how to contribute and answer their questions. Finally > as > I said different other topics could be covered in this calls. > > All these video calls will be archived to a public Gentoo account in > Youtube. > > I am looking forward to your feedback, your comments and of course for the > first team that will create a video Hangout!! :) > > That's all folks, thanks for your time. > > Pavlos > >
