[Ubuntu-Classroom] Plans for UOW,UDW,UADW, and User Days

[Svetlana Belkin]

On 06/15/2014 01:21 PM, José Antonio Rey wrote:
> I have to agree here. I find IRC sessions more inclusive. I know various
> people in the community who live on a limited connection, so that would
> mean no Classroom for them anymore. Also, we have participants and
> instructors who may not want to appear on screen due to various reasons,
> or manage the language as good as like to go on a video to speak for an
> hour, which makes him refuse the invite. As well, there's people who can
> not listen to English. We have to remember that there is always a
> language barrier when participating in this kind of things, so what we
> should try is to lower that to the minimum level possible.
> 
> On the other hand, as Lyz mentions, we, as volunteers, have to attend
> work or school, and in my case I can not livestream while attending a
> class. That would be a little... disrespectful. I can, however, use my
> phone to connect to IRC and help when needed.
> 
> Again, I do not think we will be moving from IRC-based sessions to
> Ubuntu on Air!. We may have some pros, but I feel like the cons are big
> enough.
> 
> On 06/15/2014 06:46 AM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Svetlana Belkin
>> <belkinsa at ubuntusense.com> wrote:
>>> In the recent Ubuntu Online Summit (UOS) Community Roundtable [1,2,3],
>>> we discussed for plans to use UOS to replace (at least) UOW.  My first
>>> question is what are your plans for these events that you normally host?
>>>  And my second one is, if you plan to bundle up these events with the
>>> UOS, are you willing to to have them ran in Hangouts on Air?
>>
>> I've been resisting moving them to On Air because it means I can't
>> participate. Running IRC-based sessions works well with my schedule
>> (video doesn't, can't multitask) and I find them much more valuable
>> since I can skim text-based logs in a few minutes and search for what
>> I'm looking for (hard to skim video, impossible to search). I also
>> worry that doing a full presentation on a video will take a lot more
>> prep time than doing an IRC-based session and our pool of available
>> contributors to this is also smaller since it restricts it only to
>> folks who have really good bandwidth, so even planning these will be
>> more difficult. It's much easier for UOS or Q&A to do videos since
>> it's more of a conversation, not so much a presentation.
>>
>> That said, as my schedule increases to get busier this year, I'm not
>> sure I'll have a lot of time to work on Classroom anyway, so if
>> someone else wants to work on this and move in the direction of
>> video-only events, I won't stand in the way.
>>
> 

I understand.  I guess sticking to the old way is better for everyone.
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Svetlana Belkin A.K.A: belkinsa
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