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

[Max Binder]

Thanks, Joaquin!

I can't wait to test it in a real meeting. Maybe I'll use TPG as guinea
pigs...


On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
jhernandez at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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> Dan Garry
> Lead Product Manager, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
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