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.euhttp://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.euhttp://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.