Re: meetup occuring in London

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:54:30 +1300 (NZDT)

>
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 01:57 +0000, Tony Dodd wrote:
>> Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> > (Only replying to squid-dev)
>> >
>> > Since some of us aren't really able to travel half way around the
>> world
>> > for the weekend, could some sort of video and/or voice hookup be
>> organised
>> > for the devel session?
>> >
>>
>> Definitely, especially with the launch of yahoo live!; afaik, there's a
>> private online ability with this, which should allow easy interaction
>> with sound & video especially with the hookup of a projector at the
>> meeting end.
>
> We've tried this sort of thing numerous times at ubuntu development
> sessions; my experience to date is that they are time consuming to set
> up, significantly reduce the bandwidth available between the folk
> physically there (its ~ 300ms rtt to talk to someone in perth from
> London).

If it does prove to be a waste. I'd be happy with a simple recording to
listen to and hear whats discussed after te fact. Thats often easier to
grasp ideas than a written text done after the fact.

Amos
Received on Tue Feb 12 2008 - 21:54:38 MST

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