[IPython-dev] IPython "lab meetings" on g+ hangouts on air

[epi]

At my university we are successful using hackpad [1]

[1] https://hackpad.com/


Il giorno 19/mag/2013, alle ore 16:34, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Does anyone have any good suggestions on a tool for collaborative
> note-taking, so that we can leave some public summary/record of these
> meetings with minimal fuss?
> 
> A google doc is a bit of a hassle for this, I think, esp. since we
> want something to produce plaintext.
> 
> Etherpad is ugly as sin, but it's fairly functional and I know the
> software carpentry folks use it very effectively.
> 
> Unless someone knows of a better solution, I guess we could just use
> etherpad.  I'm not thinking of anything very involved, simply a
> document for each meeting where everyone can type, and that we can
> copy/paste to the mailing list at the end as a quick and dirty
> summary.
> 
> I know we won't have time for formal minutes, so these docs could end
> up being little more than a link to the URL for the youtube video.
> But if there's anything worth summarizing in text, I think it will be
> useful to have a note-taking app open with everyone involved.
> 
> Note that this is different from chat: g+ has an open chat channel,
> but that's a sequence of messages.  What I'm thinking of is a proper
> *editor* where we can leave a text file at the end; a chat app won't
> work for this.
> 
> I want this to be very lightweight and low-friction, so hopefully a
> simple g+ hangout plus a common text file is all we'll need.
> 
> I propose we go with the ugly etherpad unless anyone has a better
> solution (but I'm happy to use something else if there is such a
> thing).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> f
> 
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:15 AM, epi <massimodisasha at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I love this,
>> i enjoyed the first hangout
>> i'll follow you guys :)
>> 
>> thanks!
>> 
>> Massimo.
>> 
>> Il giorno 19/mag/2013, alle ore 11:45, Damián Avila <damianavila at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>> 
>>> El 16/05/13 22:06, Fernando Perez escribió:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>> 
>>>> as Brian just mentioned, we had a google hangout discussion today,
>>>> that arose impromptu from having a chat room discussion where it was
>>>> obvious we needed more bandwidth than just typing can provide.
>>>> 
>>>> Today (perhaps because of all the changes Google made yesterday, who
>>>> knows), g+ was a bit glitchy, and we were unable to make the hangout
>>>> on-air, so it ended up not being recorded.  But in general we want all
>>>> these discussions to be public, for example here's our previous one:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb35M8cW7o4
>>>> 
>>>> While I think it's great to jump in on video conversations like this
>>>> as-needed from the dev room or a github issue/PR discussion, we've
>>>> also been thinking about having a more regular 'lab meeting' style
>>>> discussion that is scheduled at a fixed time.
>>>> 
>>>> This would give a predictable time for everyone to participate, and
>>>> would play the same role as lab meetings in everyday research, but
>>>> taking into consideration the fact that we're an open, international
>>>> collaboration.
>>>> 
>>>> Those lab meetings would be held with hangouts on-air, and thus open
>>>> for anyone who wants to watch and join, and kept on-record afterwards.
>>>> 
>>>> The plan would be to hold them for ~60-90 minutes, to make regular
>>>> progress on design decisions that impact the project at large.
>>>> Impromptu hangouts as required by the everyday workflow will continue
>>>> to happen, and we'll do our best to also record those in public
>>>> format.
>>>> 
>>>> If you like the idea, I'd like to propose Thursdays at 10am US Pacific
>>>> time, i.e. UTC-7 hours right now (PDT).  That's a good time for all
>>>> the folks here in California while still being reasonable in Europe.
>>>> I know we can't find a time that will work across all of Earth, but at
>>>> least that probably covers reasonably well our current core team and
>>>> lots of others.
>>>> 
>>>> How does this sound to you all?  Would the time work for a reasonable
>>>> chunk of our active developers? Note that I am NOT asking only of the
>>>> 'core' github committers, but of anyone who is putting lots of time
>>>> into IPython work and is interested in joining these discussions.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> f
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>>> 
>>> I think it is a great idea! I will try to participate in the meeting as
>>> much as I can.
>>> 
>>> Cheers.
>>> 
>>> Damián.
>>> 
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