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

Tue May 21 21:26:38 EDT 2013

Dave Winer of RSS fame has created a collaborative web outliner called
Fargo fargo.io
It's a great app for meeting notes
Read-Only version of doc can be published.
Works off Dropbox.

Nitin

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Nitin Borwankar
nborwankar at gmail.com

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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