Re: [libreoffice-design] Discussion via Chat/Skype

Hi Joed, all,

jlopez777 schrieb:
> Hello,
>
>
> I would like to get to know those who are part of the team a little more as
> well as their ideas and views on LO and related topics. Anyone interested?

At least form my side there is lot of interest for online discussion.

Unfortunately there are two restrictions that come to my mind:

Time - a very important topic, because the online exchange of opinions 
and ideas should never lead to reducing the importance of our mailing 
list. The reason for this is the second restriction:

Timezones - we are a team spread over the world, living in very 
different time zones. While I'm in Europe, Marc is in North America, 
Paulo in South America, Nik in Asia and Ivan in Pacific Area. There is 
no chance to get all of us together at any time of the day (or night).

Therefore we can't discuss or decide anything finally online, but need 
to have the discussion on the mailing list too.
> If so, simply let me know so we can exchange skype or aim or whatever is
> used. Thanks!

We have a general IRC channel on freenode:
irc://freenode/documentfoundation

It doesn't seem to be used by a lot of people, so there is no problem to 
use it for design topics.

If we're going to establish and use such a resource more or less 
regularly, we might ask for creation of a dedicated IRC channel like 
libreoffice-design.

(In fact we could already use it - just open the following link: 
irc://freenode/libreoffice-design - but the name is not secured, so 
everybody can open this channel even if he is not related to our team)

I think this channel fits quite well with the needs for online contact.

Of course it would be easier to have a possibility to share uploads so 
we can discuss design topics with shared visuals. But we can use our 
wiki to upload such drafts and proposals, as this is the place they 
belong when the topic is raised on the mailing list.

Given that Skype is proprietary and other (open source) protocols might 
be not available on all platforms or not stable enough to be used from 
all over the world, the solution IRC + wiki is easy and should work 
quite well (we have some experience from OOo times...)

Best regards

Bernhard



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