Pavlos, I understand what you mean, I'm just saying that organizing a real video conference takes its toil. And just opening a webcam and talking is just going to give an amateurish feeling that could be more detrimental than not.
Can you please tell us if you have _any_ experience at all with VCing or just thought that it looks cool? Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Pavlos Ratis <daster...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò > <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Norman Rieß <nor...@smash-net.org> > wrote: > >> > >> I do not see the benefit either, it seems like that kind of thing the PR > >> department would come up with, which noone does actually like doing and > >> everyone is glad when it's over and can go back to work. > > > > > > I honestly wonder if Pavlos ever tried having regular meetings over VC. > > > > I've worked on a VC system most of last year and I now go through regular > > conferences... it's barely okay from a work point of view, it takes lots > of > > time to organize so you don't want to do that every single day for sure. > > > > And unlike IRC meetings, you can cannot multitask, say making your dinner > > while discussing this or that feature. > > > > A VC is a full commitment, and its attractiveness is often much higher > > _before_ you use it.. > > > > > > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes > > flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ > > Maybe you misunderstood my proposal, I totally agree with you about > IRC meetings. I didn't propose video calls as a full replacement for > IRC meetings. Also, I've never said to use video calls every single > day. > These team video calls would be good to exist for different reasons. > These video calls are going to promote Gentoo, our team efforts and > could be useful to our users and those who want to contribute. As I > said before, it is optional, a team maybe choose not to do any video > call, a team could do *only one* video call and stop or a team could > do frequent video calls. It's up to the team to decide. > >
