1. The sound quality was fine from what I saw and heard. I was on a desktop computer using the Blue Jeans thing (which had the YouTube video playing) and IRC chat -- and etherpad
2. Session notes were done live in Wiki Markup format on the etherpad which resulted in a truly great cooperative effort to list detailed minutes. It allowed a super quick publish to Wiki which was ideal. I was really happy to see that and hope it can be a model going forward. I would suggest having a "template" of information pre-filled out to facilitate the notes going forward.
Having a timekeeper would probably necessitate having one person designated to put time-stamps on main points. I think if there's consensus then cooperatively this could be done? It seems like babysteps here -- having transparent, detailed notes that are quickly turned around -- might be the priority over the time-stamps but this is a logical and reasonable request, I agree.
3. Agree on licensing default for published videos. Ideally the video should be embedded on the Minutes page as a supporting resource.
An additional comment:
I'm new to both Wiki-l and learning more about the governance of WMF. I was very happy with this meeting and the efforts made by Katherine to be transparent and up front. However, I think this is a lot of pressure and from my new perspective it is seeming to come down on one competent person. I think this is a tough and somewhat problematic strategic position for any one person to be in, and for any institution to rely upon. I hope that there are more people who can take leadership roles at WMF who would share this load. Assuming the consensus is for this approach to governance.
- Erika
*Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle Secretary, Wikimedia NYC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the link. Handful of quick points:
- The sound quality is poor, to a level where I find it quite hard to
work out what is being said half the time especially as the speech is quite rapid. It would be worth investing in a bit of better audio kit for these videoed discussions. If the video is being captured remotely, better results might be possible by having a local capture, at least of the audio.
- It would be great to have a tiny index as a text note on youtube at
the time of publication so that, say, on an hour+ long meeting like this it would be possible to skip around the video to when new questions are addressed. Though the session notes are useful < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director/May_...
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there is no relationship to timing.
- The video has been published on a standard youtube license. Can
those that manage these videos apply a free license that would be allowed on Wikimedia Commons as a default please?
As a side note, there was quite a few minutes of in-crowd banter at the start, an awkward drop-out mid-way for a couple of minutes and another award minute or two at the end where the meeting was being accidentally recorded to youtube after it ended. It might be good to edit these out of the published version considering it is a public record.
Thanks, Fae