On 5/9/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
2007/5/9, Alexander Baldeck <kth5@archlinuxppc.org>:
Jason Chu wrote:
That works well for the english speaking developers. The non-native speakers already have enough trouble keeping up on irc, I'm pretty sure a live chat would be even more difficult for them.
Jason
I would love to do this though. From my experience having actually talked to people makes a huge difference in a good way. Linuxtag helped me - and I would expect all the others as well - to understand text only communication from people better as in judging what kind of mood they're in. This I think is a rather big problem we have, mails that sound like ranting may not be a rant at all, right?
+1 from me for the voip chat
Any other solutions than teamspeak though?
I agree that voice communication is much better.
I've thought about this often, and flip-flopped on it. I think Roman covers a few of the issues... the main one being this: My english is probably hard for non-fluent german's to understand, and vice versa. Hell, I'd probably have a hard time listening to iphitus. You ever see the movie "Snatch"... that's all english and I can't understand half of it. 8)
Here are few issues I'd like to point out: 1) bandwidth and connection stability - will dev with a bad connection be able to really participate in communication? (I mean what if voice just dissapers for few or more seconds or worse - regularly?) if someone has experience with teamspeak on not-very-good connections - please share your opinions Will be 4-8KB/s enought?
Teamspeak is actually pretty good. They thought things through pretty well. being that it's made for online gaming, soaking too much BW would kill the playability of the game. I have no idea how it'd perform on dialup though.
2) the level of understability of native-spoken English by non-English-speaking devs - it would be nice if native English speakers try to speak sharp and not fast in any situations ;-)
One of my worst problems. I never realize this until I talk to a non-native speaker. I enunciate very poorly. Seriously, feel free to tell me if I'm talking stupid, because I don't realize it a lot of the time.
3) how we will record the meeting? :-P - are there built-in features in server/client or there is some workaround?
Hmmm good question. I've been meaning to set up a local teamspeak server at home, but I know no details just yet.