Hi, On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Michael Kelly <mke...@techtel.com> wrote: > There are two online ways > to meet that come to mind: we could use something like gotomeeting where > everyone signs on to a site and has the ability to talk or type, and become > the presenter, showing anything they want on the screen (examples, articles, > etc.) then turn the presenter role over to someone else.
I suggest either using * MeetBot on freenode (#wikimedia-us for now, #wikimedia-westcoast if you can get people to regularly show up there) ** I'm running a MeetBot instance on a Wikimedia DC server and it's lurking now in both #wikimedia-us and #wikimedia-westcoast waiting for a meeting to start. https://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot#Howto ** in this case it's useful to make an agenda so you talk about one topic and when you finish then you move on and don't mix topics too much. to make the MeetBot output more useful for people that are not able to read the whole log or so they can get some idea about the discussion before they have a chance to read it in full. arbitrary example of the power of MeetBot chosen from a directory listing: http://meetbot.debian.net/debconf-team/2013/debconf-team.2013-02-11-18.02.html or * a Google hangout on air (which means broadcast live to a nearly unlimited number of anonymous viewers and allows active participation by more than a few people at a time. (I don't know exactly what the limit is there)) ** (we should use a [[free software]] alternative at some point (so that when Google decides to modify, limit or discontinue hangouts we're not screwed among other reasons) but I'm not able to work on that right now and I think it's more important to offer a tool that can be used immediately. so for now I say hangouts but other people are welcome to find/make something even better.) Or a combination of both. FWIW, I personally am opposed to using any sort of solution that would not allow 50 (or even 100) people simultaneous viewers. (and though Google does limit the number of active participants (speakers) I believe they can be rotated so that by the end of the broadcast you could have had a total number of speakers in excess of the limit of simultaneous participants) But, OTOH, I've never set foot within 350 miles of the area covered by this list and haven't been to the west coast since I was <= 10 years old. So, just my 2 cents and I'll let you make your own decisions. (but let me know if you want help with either of those options above) -Jeremy _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-SF mailing list Wikimedia-SF@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-sf
