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

Fri Jan 15 23:27:27 UTC 2016

I tested this on a willing Team Practices Group, and got a lot of good
feedback. I populated the github issues page with a slew of user stories. :)

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Sam Smith <samsmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I would say is that I found myself wanting to immediately respond to a
> question and I wasn't sure of the protocol. However, I suspect that this
> was heavily influenced by the fact that I was in the meeting room – I'm
> usually a face on the big green – and I could see the stack of people
> waiting to talk.
>
> It's been great trying out the tool and I'm looking forward to using it
> again.
>
> -Sam
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
> jhernandez at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Default volume should be 5% now, which works fine in meeting rooms, you
>> can barely hear it.
>>
>> We found very useful to keep the stack window on the big screen resized
>> side by side with the big hangouts window to give visibility to the stack.
>>
>> Even the members of the room used it to wait for a turn, it was pretty
>> useful!
>> On Jan 13, 2016 17:14, "Max Binder" <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Yea, I think the best use of sound would be something that the
>>> facilitator can hear, but not necessarily everyone. And maybe simply a
>>> nicer sound. :)
>>>
>>> I'll populate the github page!
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
>>> jhernandez at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Adam, we talked about this and it seems like showing some kind of stats
>>>> with how many times the attendants have been in the room would help seeing
>>>> who has participated more and who less. Would that be reasonable?
>>>>
>>>> We've tried it out today in a long meeting and it was definitely
>>>> helpful (i monitored the queue, and it helped people queue for talking
>>>> without disrupting the current conversation).
>>>>
>>>> We also found that the sounds are pretty disruptive, so we've added a
>>>> mute button so that we can show it on the meeting screen and in remotes
>>>> that are talking without bothering everyone. I want to get around to
>>>> lowering the volume of the sounds, or disabling them by default. They don't
>>>> seem as useful as we anticipated.
>>>>
>>>> If you find issues or want to request changes, go to
>>>> https://github.com/joakin/stack/issues
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 11 2016, at 12:41 pm, Kristen Lans <klans at wikimedia.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 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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