[PD] Pd book sprint in NYC/Berlin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Georg Holzmann wrote:

> Derek Holzer schrieb:
>> My tendency is to keep everything as simple and low-tech as  
>> possible. Does video conferencing add anything substantial that IRC  
>> doesn't have already? Do we want to do interpretive dance for each  
>> other in order to write a FLOSS manual? Do we really need to look  
>> at another room full of people sitting behind laptops across the  
>> ocean somewhere? Does anybody ever actually watch these video  
>> streams from meetings like these? I could see some sense if there  
>> was some sort of presentation aspect, but these will be working  
>> sessions, i.e. very boring to look at .
>
> You are right.
> And if one really wants to speak/see each other, one can use ekiga,  
> skype or whatever ...

I find IRC meetings to be very unproductive.  Everyone is usually too  
busy multitasking to get anything done in the meeting.  I think that  
the high bandwidth of voice and seeing the person holds your attention  
longer, so there is less multitasking and more focused discussion.   
That said, if the audio connection is bad, then it gets worse than  
IRC.  IRC is good for asking pointed questions back and forth, better  
than audio/video chat.

I think we should have IRC running, but also it would be great to have  
video chat with projectors, speakers, and a decent mic setup.  Marius  
and I ran the streaming for a class at Brooklyn Poly.  One student was  
joining in from Canada.  When it was set up and running well, it  
actually worked quite well.  This means spending a little time setting  
up the speakers and mics, and a projector is good too instead of a  
screen.  Since this will be happening over three days, it makes sense  
to spend some time on setup.  ITP can provide all of the equipment on  
the NYC end.

.hc


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