Talk:User group meeting agenda & minutes 21 May 2008

I looked at a couple of things related to the last user group meeting, and the item on how to get people involved got me looking at Skype a little more.

You can have up to nine people in on a Skype conversation, and I think there is now a video feature too, although I'm not sure what will work with it other than some webcams, where things might be able to be demonstrated.

While a group is discussing things with Skype, the conversation can be recorded, and then distributed later via mp3 file. I found a small fooprint software applet called 'Freecorder', but to get the most of this you have to pay for it, even there it is very cheap. You need the paid version to record more than two minutes of a Skype call or to get high-bitrate output.

In other words, that way we could have a small group in a room, with a microphone, and pass that around as people have questions, and the leader of that group giving answers and instruction, and it going out to a small number of others, then posting the file somewhere later. Could prove to be a very popular way of doing things.

One of the remote users, preferably one of the managers, could be using Freecorder to capture the audio remotely, the other seven would be on the call itself. The 'live' audience would also be small and it could be held in a conference room if there was no slot available at the FHL or JSMB, etc.

dsammy 06:55, 21 May 2008 (UTC) in case, the above part isn't mine, thank you!

One item got my attention - careless creating of category portions as well as the naming. I cleaned up Louisiana and left Mollie to fix the bad ones within the Category section for the "St." group and to add missing "parish" in the W group of parishes. Please take time before making it final to be sure. The categories can not be moved unless done by the admins. We don't need to create extra work for the admins when the admins could use time to do other wiki work. Louisiana wasn't the only one I found problems with. At least 3 other states had category problems. dsammy 06:55, 21 May 2008 (UTC)