At our last council meeting we decided to learn more about preference and challenges for communication, and have a couple of questions!
Discourse, Blogs, IRC, Facebook, Dist List. Which of these do you use, which do you prefer?
We hold community calls using Vidyo. Is this working for you ? Iāve heard mixed things about bandwidth, but also this: http://blog.humphd.org/video-killed-the-radio-star/ Wondering your thoughts. * This could be about alternatives, but also about ways to support those with bandwidth problems concurrently with Vidyo (creativity needed)
Iām using Discourse, Blogs, IRC from this list. Iāve stopped using Facebook for anything other than Chat (using Jabber for the FB chat). I prefer IRC for chatting, Discourse is great for discussions that are not synchronous.
Iām using Vidyo quite often and it works great for me. But well, my bandwidth is great as well (I know, Iām lucky).
Vidyo used to work fine for me, but setting it up on any Linux distro
besides Ubuntu is ridiculous.
About alternativesā¦ Out of curiosity, how large of calls does
Firefox Hello support?
On 06/01/15 14:05, Emma Irwin wrote:
Dear Reps,
At our last council meeting we decided to learn more about
preference and challenges for communication, and have a couple of
questions!
Discourse, Blogs, IRC, Facebook, Dist List. Which of these do
you use, which do you prefer?
We hold community calls using Vidyo. Is this working for you ?
Iāve heard mixed things about bandwidth, but also this: http://blog.humphd.org/video-killed-the-radio-star/ Wondering
your thoughts. * This could be about alternatives, but also
about ways to support those with bandwidth problems concurrently
with Vidyo (creativity needed)
Discourse is great for discussion without a doubt but may be I like it old school so I check the posts posted in Discourse via my email (just like in the mailing list). All in all I am ok with discourse.
I use IRC and Facebook the most and I prefer IRC over everything.
Yes with limited bandwidth and poor internet connection most of the times Vidyo is not the best of the choices for me. :ā(
I use Vidyo for some meetings I can join according to my time zone. Sometimes I have issues with the webcam, it seems there is no communication between Vidyo, the meetingās link and the webcam.
Discourse, Blogs, IRC, Dist List.
Prefer Discourse and IRC
I use even more frequently Telegram. I prefer that for immediate talk.
Vidyo works for me and I like it because you can have a better meeting in my opinion ( text or call - you are waiting in vain sometime as you can not see what happens)
I like/prefer Discourse for asychronous communication, less intrusive than a mailing list (opt-in to the content, instead of opt-out). I donāt really like IRC, I prefer jabber for sychronous communications.
I sometimes use Vidyo, but Iād rather not I donāt trust installing proprietary apps on my personal laptop. I extensively use Hello for 1:1 lately and other WebRTC services (palava.tv, apper.in) for multiple participants video calls.
Iām using irc, telegram and discource
For meetings I prefer vidyo since itās better to see people faces while youāre talking. I understand bandwidth problems and one solution is using vidyo (or any other video program) as a primary communication path in meetings and using irc as a backchannel for people that can not attend via video. (Weāve tried that on the Moz Balkans meetings and it is working).
Basically someone that can participate on Vidyo is responsible on writing and informing the irc partipants. Also he/she needs to raise the irc concerns/questions/feedback on Vidyo
1 I like Discourse. Was somewhat septic in the beginning but have really come to like the platform.Thinks works really great as long people are using it
I have found that IRC is less used in the Mozilla project (especially within Reps/Engagement ) in compassion to the other major Free/Open Source project Iām involved with. Before Discourse I did find it problematic , now that we have Discourse I find it much less so.
2 Donāt use Vidyo. Beside that its proprietary, non free software it have lacking support for GNU/Linux OS. Have tested Firefox Hello although I understand its not 100% reliable yet (are looking forward to when it is).
This is a variation of the model that is used by W3C for phone conference calls. They even have an IRC bot that turns the log into meeting notes. But to really work well, it requires having a person dedicated to being the āscribeā for the meeting. Itās difficult to scribe while also participating.
In the Mozilla context, I find it works better to use etherpad as a backchannel for Vidyo. You can keep the agenda there, and add notes to each item as the meeting goes along. Since people in the meeting are looking at the etherpad for the agenda anyway, theyāre more likely to notice if someone whoās not on Vidyo adds a question or comment there.
I donāt trust installing proprietary apps on my personal laptop. I extensively use Hello for 1:1 lately and other WebRTC services (