[teampractices] [TOOL REQUEST] A way to "raise your hand" as a remotee

[Joaquin Oltra Hernandez]

Hi!

I've worked on this during the hackathon, and after chatting with Max it
has the required functionality to work:

http://stack.wmflabs.org

Features:
* create named rooms (shareable URL)
* add yourself to the queue (remembers name)
* one person can add multiple people
* can pop from the stack (needs human agreement on who will be the popper)
* plays sound when somebody is added to queue
* after 5 minutes of stale queue plays warning sound

It's kind of real-time (1s interval polling to server) and it may crash at
some point, but it gets the job done for now. It's also not really secured
so a mean user can probably easily crash the server, I'm assuming good
faith for now.

Open to comments, hope this helps!
On Sep 22, 2015 08:53, "Dan Garry" <dgarry at wikimedia.org> wrote:

On 22 September 2015 at 08:40, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> I had thought about that in the past, but seeing it in this thread really
> resonated with me. For meetings with a mix of SF and remote folks, I am
> starting to think that it would be better for all the SF folks to scatter
> and use individual computers to join the hangout.
>

This is harder than it seems. It can be quite disruptive to those around
you to sit at your desk being noisy participating in a hangout, and that
rules out a large part of the office. I've done this before myself from the
fifth floor collab space, where there are no permanent desks and some
semi-private areas, but you cannot guarantee the availability of those
spaces. When I was remote I often wondered why more people didn't do this,
but when I moved to the office, I started to appreciate the difficulties
with it.

Dan

-- 
Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation

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