Re: practical organization next Solid Community phone conf

Hi Jonas,

It’s fairly easy to change the details on the W3C Solid wiki and send out an email to notify everyone. 

There have been some previous emails about which call in method to use (below). 

Perhaps we could have a plan A to use your suggestion and a plan B back up gotomeeting link if we are having connection troubles. 

Thoughts? 

Mitzi 

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Alexandre Bourlier <alexandre@happy-dev.fr>
> Subject: Re: practical organization next Solid Community phone conf
> Date: 24 February 2019 at 00:39:02 CET
> To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> Cc: Mitzi László <mitzil@inrupt.com>, "public-solid@w3.org" <public-solid@w3.org>
> 
> We use Jitsi and Hangout on a regular basis at Startin'blox. 
> I wouldn't rank Jitsi as reliable unfortunately although we keep on using it as much as possible.
> We often experience people not hearing some other participants on the call as the main issue.

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: "Ruben Verborgh (UGent-imec)" <Ruben.Verborgh@UGent.be>
> Subject: Re: practical organization next Solid Community phone conf
> Date: 20 February 2019 at 22:42:40 CET
> To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> Cc: "public-solid@w3.org" <public-solid@w3.org>
> Resent-From: public-solid@w3.org
> 
>> 2. Which meeting technology to use, im not a huge fan of gotomeeting, tho it does work, for now at least.  What about things like : https://jitsi.org/
> 
> My only concern with whatever system proposed, is how many people can reliably be present.
> We had 30+ in the first meeting.
> Webpage says yes, just curious about experience.



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From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: practical organization next Solid Community phone conf
Date: 19 February 2019 at 18:19:09 CET
To: "Ruben Verborgh (UGent-imec)" <Ruben.Verborgh@ugent.be>
Cc: "public-solid@w3.org" <public-solid@w3.org>
Resent-From: public-solid@w3.org



On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 12:56, Ruben Verborgh (UGent-imec) <Ruben.Verborgh@ugent.be <mailto:Ruben.Verborgh@ugent.be>> wrote:
Dear all,

Thanks again for the nice phone conf earlier this month,
the notes of which are available at
https://www.w3.org/2019/02/05-solid-minutes.html <https://www.w3.org/2019/02/05-solid-minutes.html>

I have taken the initiative to organize the first phone conf,
but my schedule makes it hard to do this every month.
As such, I have looked for a replacement.

Organizing phone confs is a purely administrative duty.
Determining the agenda is up to the community;
also, that organizer is not necessarily the chair of the conf.

I suggest that Mitzi from Inrupt takes up
the administrative duty to keep the monthly phone confs going.
She would then, for now, ensure these phone confs happen.
What happens during the phone conf is all (y)ours :-)

+1 if it is the case that Mitzi is volunteering, which was not 100% clear

Regarding meetings some questions :

1. Should we make it a long term goal to use Solid for meetings?
2. Which meeting technology to use, im not a huge fan of gotomeeting, tho it does work, for now at least.  What about things like : https://jitsi.org/ <https://jitsi.org/>
3. Keep minutes via IRC / Zakim for now? (Its tried and tested)

Possibly relevant to (1) and (2) is a group uris spec and chat prototype I made some years ago for solid :

https://melvincarvalho.github.io/groupuris/ <https://melvincarvalho.github.io/groupuris/>
 

Looking forward to talking again to you soon.

Best,

Ruben
--
Ruben Verborgh
Professor of Semantic Web Technology
IDLab, Ghent University – imec
https://ruben.verborgh.org/ <https://ruben.verborgh.org/> – @RubenVerborgh



> On 5 Mar 2019, at 21:25, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> wrote:
> 
> Dear Mitzi and Solid group,
> 
> Quoting Mitzi László (2019-02-25 16:34:59)
>> The call in details are below. If there are objections to the call in 
>> method please do let me know your preferred alternative and we can 
>> adapt.
>> 
>> https://zoom.us/j/4707991524
> 
> Sorry for testing the above only this late, but I cannot accept the very 
> closed design of the service used for our upcoming call.
> 
> I am fully aware of the pain of using gratis WebRTC services for larger 
> groups, and I have no suggestions for something WebRTC-based which is 
> both reliable for our size group and based on open standards.
> 
> What I can propose - which I know from experience works reliable - is to 
> use the voice-only Mumble service for now.  I can offer to host the 
> meeting at my Mumble service at live.jones.dk.
> 
> I fully understand that it is likely too late to change plans now for 
> the next meeting, so I will simply miss out on that.  I dearly hope, 
> however, that we can coordinate on locating, testing, and deciding on an 
> *open* platform for the meetings after that, and I am willing to help at 
> least with testing and putting together criteria for such platform.
> 
> 
> - Jonas
> 
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