[tahoe-dev] Summit coming up.. two weeks away!

[Shawn Willden]

Another option for remote interaction is Google+ hangouts.  I find it
works very well with an almost arbitrary number of participants, and I
believe there are also some options for easy/automatic recording, with
the results available via Youtube.

I plan to be in SF that week, and to show up for some of the sessions
-- though I'll also need to spend some time at work to justify Google
paying for the trip :-)

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Brian Warner <warner at lothar.com> wrote:
> Some summit notes:
>
> * I've got conference room space reserved at the Mozilla SF office (2
>  Harrison, at Spear St.) for 8-5pm each day, tuesday 8-Nov through
>  friday 11-Nov. We have to jump around a bit because of some
>  pre-existing meetings, but most of the rooms can accomodate 6-8 people
>  and have big monitors for projecting stuff. There's also a big
>  common-area/lounge, lots of sodas/snacks, and a fabulous outside
>  7th-floor deck where we can design protocols while watching the
>  sailboats go around Treasure Island.
>
> * In the evenings we can either hang around the Mozilla office (access
>  gets harder, I probably have to sign folks in/out of the building
>  after 5pm), or go hit Noisebridge, or dinner, etc. Wednesdays are
>  movie night.
>
> * I have a few potential tools available for remote participation:
>
>  * Vidyo: we're using Vidyo for internal teleconferencing, and it works
>    pretty well. Most of the rooms we're using have good cameras and
>    microphones installed. However the non-employee options are limited:
>    there's a web-based (Flash) view-only feature, so pretty much
>    anybody can see+hear us. And it'll record the same stream for later
>    download (some .mov/.avi -type file, I forget what format).
>
>  * BigBlueButton: this is a distance-learning tool that we're
>    experimenting with (we have a couple of licenses). It uses a
>    web-based (Flash) client, does one-presenter-at-a-time
>    video/screen/PDF-presentation transmission, and multi-party
>    audio/text chat. The conference room cameras don't know about it, so
>    we'd have to feed it with laptop cameras.
>
>  * phone bridge: we have some POTS conference-call stuff too: if we
>    aren't using Vidyo, I think we can set up a 1-800 number for folks
>    to dial in with.
>
>  * we've also used Mumble (multi-party voice-only chat), and Skype in
>    the past, with varying (sometimes negative) levels of success.
>
> * My Time: it depends upon who's around and when, and what else comes up
>  that week, but I'll probably spend one or two full days doing Tahoe
>  stuff, and the other days mostly doing work work and just popping in
>  to check up on everyone. Once 5pm rolls around, I'll be all-Tahoe
>  all-the-time.
>
> * Agenda: let's use the wiki for this, but a handful of things I'd like
>  accomplish are:
>
>  * explain how my #466 signed-introducer code[1] works, commit to a
>    public-key signature scheme (I'm lobbying for Ed25519), land the
>    branch
>  * decide upon a safe "web control panel" scheme
>  * explain how my #666 Accounting code[2] works, land the branch
>  * discuss how accounting, #467 static-server-selection, and
>    Invitations should interact, so I know what to build going forward
>  * discuss Performance Improvements, HTTP-only Storage Protocols, New
>    Encoding Formats (Rainhill!)
>
>
> Two weeks to go!
>
> cheers,
>  -Brian
>
>
> [1]: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/466
>     https://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs/tree/466-ed25519
> [2]: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/666
>     https://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs/tree/accounting
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-- 
Shawn