On 05/18/2011 12:29 AM, Happy-melon wrote:
"Steven Walling"steven.walling@gmail.com wrote in message news:BANLkTi=TGX+f01W6bjftqO40ORtOuBDa-w@mail.gmail.com...
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Setting up the live video feed isn't easy, and taking notes in real time is pretty time- and energy-consuming, but we can make efforts to continue to do it in the future, if it's worth it. We'd just like to know how useful it is.
The EtherPad notes were especially useful for me. The live video was less useful because of the time difference. The videos after the fact are fun, so if it was a combination of notes and post-produced videos I'd be happy.
Thanks for all the hard work on documentation. It sure was nice to read the blog posts as you all went along.
Steven
Being in a similar timezone avoided that problem for me, and it was a welcome distraction from RL to watch some of the videos; but I didn't gain anything particular out of it being live because there was no obvious way to interact back. Admittedly I was hampered by being unable to use IRC, but were people on it 'live' during the event? I was tempted to drop a question onto the EtherPad and see if anyone picked it up.
I suspect that there actually was a reasonable amount of scope for remote interactivity, just that it wasn't as obvious or well-advertised as it could have been. But since the only advantage to *outputting* media feeds in real-time is if remote viewers can *input* straight back, that's something that would be worth consolidating in the future.
--HM
Why were you unable to use IRC? There exist web clients as well, in case installing an application is the blocker. And yes, we and many other participants were on it, live, during the event. And why didn't you ask your question in Etherpad? We chatted there with both onsite and remote participants while taking notes.
What publicity channels do you pay attention to, such that we could have persuaded you to interact more with us during the event? It sounds like our techblog posts and mailing list posts didn't work. I may sound frustrated but I am seriously asking -- if you didn't get the message that we wanted remote participation, then some others did not as well.
-Sumana Harihareswara, one of the note-takers