monthly open skype call?
Bess Sadler
One of the goals that I and the other project committers have for
project blacklight is to strike a healthy balance between project
inclusiveness and the ability to produce high quality software in a
short time period, which is easier with a small group of people.
Currently, the project committers have a weekly phone call where we
assign tasks, check on progress, hash out bug fixes, and decide on
features for new releases, as well as discuss ideas for project
management and coordination. This is a great system from the point of
view of developing software, but lately we've been feeling that it
doesn't pay enough attention to the inclusiveness side of this
project's goals.
An idea we've been tossing around is to have a monthly skype call
where anyone could participate. This might be of interest to you if
you have questions or concerns that you want to discuss with the
project's programmers, or if you have a feature request you want to
advocate for, or if you just want to have more input in the decision
making for the project.
Our skype calls are usually on Fridays at 1pm North American Eastern
time. I propose that our first all-comers call be October 9 at this
usual time. If you'd like to participate:
1. Email me your skype id and let me know you want to be included
2. Before the call, please make sure you have headphones, a
microphone, and the fastest internet service available to you (e.g.,
if you have a choice, please use a land line at your office, not the
wireless at the coffeeshop). The more people we have in a skype call
the more difficult it is to speak, and one bad audio setup can ruin
things for everyone.
As we get closer to the date, I'll send out a reminder email and we
can start forming an agenda.
What do we think, community? Is this a good idea?
Bess
earlj moniz
wonderful idea...
Two questions come immediately to mind:
1 - Will it get recorded for later playback for those who miss the session or can't set an alarm clock properly, or just didn't set one to begin with...? Or those who might want to hear what goes on but to reluctant to call in during the session...
2 - Does the number of participants degrade the quality and speed even if they just come to listen?
I might want to join in just to listen as I am sure I won't have anything to contribute to a group of open source techies in full tech-speak mode... (grin)
Until that time. . . Earl J.
Bess Sadler
earlj moniz
most excellent...
_ _ _
Understood. Many don't like to have to defend a change of mind or opinion weeks or months after they make a statement they believe is completely true at the time they made it... and others hog the conversation simply because they know it is recorded while some might not participate as fully as they would otherwise. . . A compromise could be that those who miss the live chat and want it can ask for it, and you (or the official recorder) will send it to them directly without posting on a public site...
Perhaps others might ask once it becomes a more popular avenue to discuss issues openly.
I can wait - the river rushes, but the ocean is patient.
_ _ _
I'll plan on listening in... should be fun, not that I'll really learn anything - it'll probably sound like wiretapping a phone call in Babylonian! hahahah
_ _ _
Until that time... Earl J.
Eric Larson
This thread seems to have lost momentum, but UW-Madison would be happy
to participate in a "public" Skype call.
Here are some blacklight related issues that are currently important
to us:
* Updating
- Naomi's "vendor drop" approach worked well for us (thanks!), but the
upgrading process and documentation could be polished.
* Themes
- We're overwriting most of the views and extending the application
helper considerably. Someday real theming would be nice to explore.
Maybe Typo's approach or this idea from Dr Nic:
http://tinyurl.com/yj2jscv
* Full Text
- How are blacklight installs integrating full-text digital
collections? Search surrogates and push users to full-text apps like
XTF for display?
* SolrMarc
- We've tested quite a few ways to index our 8M marc records. Using
just three functions from SolrMarc and leaving the rest of the code
behind seems to be the fastest.
Like I said above, it would be fun to chat.
Cheers,
- Eric
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earlj moniz
nothing so far ...
since the initiator was not provided, I don't know who to contact...
earlj moniz
Molly Pickral
We'll try to make this work for a future date. Several of the
regulars aren't available this week, and we didn't quite get things in
order for an open call. We'll keep you posted on rescheduling.
Molly
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:20 PM, earlj moniz <earlj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> maybe next time...
>
> >
>
Naomi Dushay
Sorry we didn't have it together for an open skype call today. We
will definitely get that rescheduled.
If folks have topics they would like discussed, I encourage them to
post to the list, as Eric did.
I would advise against sending skype ids to the list, but sending them
to the committers is a good idea:
Bess
Matt M.
Naomi
Jessie
Vernon
Jason
Sean
Molly
Jennifer
That way we can add them to our contacts and whoever hosts the call
will have them.
- Naomi
On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Eric Larson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This thread seems to have lost momentum, but UW-Madison would be happy
> to participate in a "public" Skype call.
>
> Here are some blacklight related issues that are currently important
> to us:
>
> * Updating
> - Naomi's "vendor drop" approach worked well for us (thanks!), but the
> upgrading process and documentation could be polished.
yes, of course we want polished documentation. We always welcome
documentation contributions :-) and suggestions.
> * Themes
> - We're overwriting most of the views and extending the application
> helper considerably. Someday real theming would be nice to explore.
> Maybe Typo's approach or this idea from Dr Nic:
> http://tinyurl.com/yj2jscv
>
> * Full Text
> - How are blacklight installs integrating full-text digital
> collections? Search surrogates and push users to full-text apps like
> XTF for display?
> * SolrMarc
> - We've tested quite a few ways to index our 8M marc records. Using
> just three functions from SolrMarc and leaving the rest of the code
> behind seems to be the fastest.
indexes, and what data is in them, seems like a great topic for a wiki!
earlj moniz
understood ... not a problem ...
Until that time... Earl J.
Naomi Dushay
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