How to improve community hangouts?

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Thank you all guys, I got many tips!
Making a recap of your thoughts:

  • more ‘specialized’ meetings with a clear topic
  • meetings for teams: dev team, the docs team, the community team, translation team
  • have an official part (recorded) and a relax part (after or before that) to see each other and get to know
  • written summary with all subjects and decisions afterward
  • schedule on different timezone to reach members sparse on the planet Earth in different continents
  • having it outside of office hours as this should allow more people to join in
  • more restrictive with date, just a small bunch of days

And that’s my proposal, I’d like to create some “meetings” with these features:

  • a single and specific subject, for example:
  • “Testing Urbackup on NethServer”
  • “How to move forward the Raspberry spin”
  • “Improving the wiki”
  • “NethServer 7 Developments status”
  • specific people have to be involved, just 1-2
  • meeting should be scheduled suiting participants needs (respecting timezone and office hours)
  • the meeting have to contain an official part (always recorded and summarize) based on the chosen topic and maybe a relax part with generic chit-chat.

Let give me some examples:

We need just to see what time would work better for the few participants, choosing from a small list of dates, others can just watch the meeting in real-time or the recording later.

Plus, we can test in the meantime another different platform like Blab, do you know it yet? It would permit us to

  • enable viewers to text-chat in real-time with participants, questions and greetings are welcomed
  • chat and questions are recorded with the video as well
  • use also facebook and twitter accounts, not just google
  • download video and audio to publish it afterward everywhere: podcasts, youtube,
  • subscribe a meeting as viewer and be notified of its beginning by email or browser notifications, all in realtime.

Icing on the cake, it’s very very easy to use! More info: http://www.marc-levy.com/blab-im-tutorial/

These are my opinions here but really I’m curious to hear all of yours.

Who want to help me to test this new platform and see if it suits our needs? Today or tomorrow?

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