[teampractices] [TOOL REQUEST] A way to "raise your hand" as a remotee

Thu Jan 14 01:13:22 UTC 2016

Yea, I think the best use of sound would be something that the facilitator
can hear, but not necessarily everyone. And maybe simply a nicer sound. :)

I'll populate the github page!

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
jhernandez at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Adam, we talked about this and it seems like showing some kind of stats
> with how many times the attendants have been in the room would help seeing
> who has participated more and who less. Would that be reasonable?
>
> We've tried it out today in a long meeting and it was definitely helpful
> (i monitored the queue, and it helped people queue for talking without
> disrupting the current conversation).
>
> We also found that the sounds are pretty disruptive, so we've added a mute
> button so that we can show it on the meeting screen and in remotes that are
> talking without bothering everyone. I want to get around to lowering the
> volume of the sounds, or disabling them by default. They don't seem as
> useful as we anticipated.
>
> If you find issues or want to request changes, go to
> https://github.com/joakin/stack/issues
>
> Thanks!
>
>> On Jan 11 2016, at 12:41 pm, Kristen Lans <klans at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Very cool Joaquin! I can't wait to try it.
>>
>> FYI, here's a link to a short description of the facilitation technique
>> of "stacking" from the group I learned it from, Community at Work:
>> http://tinyurl.com/hv5ufmd
>>
>> KL
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Joaquin!
>>
>> I can't wait to test it in a real meeting. Maybe I'll use TPG as guinea
>> pigs...
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
>> jhernandez at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've worked on this during the hackathon, and after chatting with Max it
>> has the required functionality to work:
>>
>> http://stack.wmflabs.org
>>
>> Features:
>> * create named rooms (shareable URL)
>> * add yourself to the queue (remembers name)
>> * one person can add multiple people
>> * can pop from the stack (needs human agreement on who will be the popper)
>> * plays sound when somebody is added to queue
>> * after 5 minutes of stale queue plays warning sound
>>
>> It's kind of real-time (1s interval polling to server) and it may crash
>> at some point, but it gets the job done for now. It's also not really
>> secured so a mean user can probably easily crash the server, I'm assuming
>> good faith for now.
>>
>> Open to comments, hope this helps!
>> On Sep 22, 2015 08:53, "Dan Garry" <dgarry at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 22 September 2015 at 08:40, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> I had thought about that in the past, but seeing it in this thread really
>> resonated with me. For meetings with a mix of SF and remote folks, I am
>> starting to think that it would be better for all the SF folks to scatter
>> and use individual computers to join the hangout.
>>
>>
>> This is harder than it seems. It can be quite disruptive to those around
>> you to sit at your desk being noisy participating in a hangout, and that
>> rules out a large part of the office. I've done this before myself from the
>> fifth floor collab space, where there are no permanent desks and some
>> semi-private areas, but you cannot guarantee the availability of those
>> spaces. When I was remote I often wondered why more people didn't do this,
>> but when I moved to the office, I started to appreciate the difficulties
>> with it.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> --
>> Dan Garry
>> Lead Product Manager, Discovery
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
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