Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ambassadors (128 mails)

["Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 18:13 +0900, Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> (2010/08/06 16:59), Okuro Oikawa wrote:
>
> > we recently had a discussion at the Marketing mailinglist about
> > communication via skype for a better communication between the
> > ambassadors.
>
> Well, I can't see exactly what are the advantages of using Skype for
> communication between Ambassadors, in particular, why all Ambassadors
> *should* have and open their Skype accounts.
>
> I don't oppose to using Skype as appropriate. For example, when some
> Ambassadors want to have a talk for an upcoming event they are going to
> attend or organize, talking to each other in their own language via
> Skype (or other VoIP and video conferencing applications such as Ekiga)
> would be helpful.
>
> But there is no need for *all* Ambassadors to have and open their Skype
> accounts - if some Ambassadors want to communicate via Skype, they can
> personally tell their accounts each other since all Ambassadors have
> opened their email address already (I know there still are many
> Ambassadors who haven't created their User page on new Wiki, though) and
> we can ask others accounts individually via email when needed.
>
> Skype (or any other similar applications) is a *personal* communication
> tool, rather than a *public* one. It is not good for *open*
> communications such as meetings and discussions for teams.

I have to agree with Satoru here.  Skype is good for one-on-one
conversations and you should use it if it helps you to quickly
communicate with someone else.  But to use it as an official tool for
general Ambassador meetings?  No.   Why?  Because how will you record
and log the meeting?  

Such conversations will not be effective for those who were unable to
attend the meeting.  And besides, why should we set a bad example by
promoting a non-free software like Skype?  It just seems ironic that we
wish to be ambassadors preaching the great and free open source openSUSE
and then we use Skype.    Use something else like Ekiga.

Bryen

> Best,
>
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