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

[Kristen Lans]

Very cool Joaquin! I can't wait to try it.

FYI, here's a link to a short description of the facilitation technique of
"stacking" from the group I learned it from, Community at Work:
http://tinyurl.com/hv5ufmd

KL

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:

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