In order to allow for a good experience, we should have a pretty good networking experience.
>From my sprints experience in Lille, networking is almost always a pain to get working right for external people (usually ending up sharing a connection from someone's PC, which doesn't work if the person is using WiFi for his own link or something like that). But what would work is to have people not present there to pair together on the internet and work on the issues. As for Hangouts, the "Squeak" mondays were really nice to attend. Why not do this for Pharo? We could discuss side things or exciting developments (I am currently hooked on Phratch :-) ). Phil On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 04 Feb 2014, at 12:51, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I always wonder how one could participate without beeing physically > > on the sprint location. Some kind of "online" sprint or collaboration. > > > > Did we have remote participation on such Sprints in the past > > using Google Hangouts, Skype or other tools? > > > Hangout is nice, there was one Hangout some month ago... > > One thing to take care: I once was on Skype for a sprint with someone. > The result is that I was like a ghost: I was not interacting with anyone > physically at the sprint (even though I was there), just with the other > person on Skype. > > I really did not like the experience, at the end I was very unhappy and > for me it would have been better to stay at home. The other people around > where just a distraction and too loud, interfering wight he Skype session. > > So: Virtual and In Person is *very* different, one should not mix them too > much. They can be a the same time, but being a person from the in-person > meeting > collaborating with the virtual is not a fun position to be in. > > Marcus > > >
