Pavlos, I understand what you mean, I'm just saying that organizing a real
video conference takes its toil. And just opening a webcam and talking is
just going to give an amateurish feeling that could be more detrimental
than not.

Can you please tell us if you have _any_ experience at all with VCing or
just thought that it looks cool?

Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Pavlos Ratis <dastergon@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò
> <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Norman Rieß <norman@smash-net.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I do not see the benefit either, it seems like that kind of thing the PR
> >> department would come up with, which noone does actually like doing and
> >> everyone is glad when it's over and can go back to work.
> >
> >
> > I honestly wonder if Pavlos ever tried having regular meetings over VC.
> >
> > I've worked on a VC system most of last year and I now go through regular
> > conferences... it's barely okay from a work point of view, it takes lots
> of
> > time to organize so you don't want to do that every single day for sure.
> >
> > And unlike IRC meetings, you can cannot multitask, say making your dinner
> > while discussing this or that feature.
> >
> > A VC is a full commitment, and its attractiveness is often much higher
> > _before_ you use it..
> >
> >
> > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
> > flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
>
> Maybe you misunderstood my proposal, I totally agree with you about
> IRC meetings. I didn't propose video calls as a full replacement for
> IRC meetings. Also, I've never said to use video calls every single
> day.
> These team video calls would be good to exist for different reasons.
> These video calls are going to promote Gentoo, our team efforts and
> could be useful to our users and those who want to contribute. As I
> said before, it is optional, a team maybe choose not to do any video
> call, a team could do *only one* video call and stop or a team could
> do frequent video calls. It's up to the team to decide.
>
>