Preferred meeting tools

[mikeal]

We need to lock down our preferred tools for setting up meetings.

• Is hangouts still preferred for less than 10 people? should we move this to the nodejs account?
• Should we consider GoToMeeting?

[orangemocha]

In my opinion, Hangouts has the lowest barrier to use. With Hangout on air we also easily enable having observers.
GoToMeeting also gets the job done, but I think the interface is less intuitive and it requires an installation. Also it's not free.
I would personally rather pay for a google business account than a GoToMeeting one.

[chrisdickinson]

I'd second Hangouts — video also helps with the cross-talk we often experience on contentious topics.

Would this be for WG use as well?

[jasnell]

Hangouts is still by far the best choice for small groups. We need to figure out the CTC/TSC meetings tho.

[rvagg]

Hangouts is good for 15 if you do it from an Apps account, not that we can add everyone to the nodejs.org Apps account, but it's a rare WG meeting that gets >10 people from what I see.

I'd like us to recommend creating broadcast and recorded Hangouts by default. Overflow can then go to a view-only YouTube feed. Instructions here: https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki/Meetings:-Creating-a-Hangouts-On-Air-Event

[mikeal]

The setup process for Hangouts is pretty esoteric but the automated recording and posting to youtube is amazing. Who needs to be added to the nodejs channel?

[mikeal]

Is there a way to bridge GoToMeeting and Hangout so that Hangouts does the broadcasting and recording but most of us dialin to GoToMeeting?

[Fishrock123]

Can't you live broadcast to youtube without hangouts somehow?

[Fishrock123]

Turns out you don't need any special permission to stream to youtube these days.

I made a simple test stream using Open Broadcaster Software (which is free and open-source!), which seemed to work fine, and it even auto-recorded it. You can find the recording at https://youtu.be/glnTbJ8e4oo.

I can run this off of the CTC call next week if we'd like to try livestreaming that way.

[Fishrock123]

ping @mikeal / @rvagg should I get setup to stream to youtube for this week's CTC meeting?

[mikeal]

Let’s test this out on the TSC meeting instead, the CTC meeting has a lot of people and more agenda so let’s not use it as a test ground quite yet.

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[Fishrock123]

@mikeal The TSC meeting we can just stream via hangouts though? This is really only useful for meetings large enough that we can't stream via hangouts.

[rvagg]

@Fishrock123 what's the process for streaming to YouTube? Does it just capture your audio input? I'm +1 on experimenting, if we can announce a feed URL in the issue for the CTC meeting ahead of time that would be ideal, I'm just not sure what's involved in this process outside of HOA.

[mikeal]

sure, we can but instead we will test this with a few people rather than
potentially messing up a meeting with many more people :)

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@mikeal https://github.com/mikeal The TSC meeting we can just stream
via hangouts though? This is really only useful for meetings large enough
that we can't stream via hangouts.

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[Fishrock123]

@rvagg get Open Broadcaster Software and the youtube account streaming key, click "start broadcast", live.

Does it just capture your audio input?

It would be pretty pointless if it couldn't, but there are various way to set it up, it's very flexible. Here's an example of what it looks like if you don't want to try it yourself:

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@mikeal So, two things:

1. Gona try to do a test run beforehand.
2. We will still have the regular uberconfrence recording, it won't mess anything else up.

At very least, I'm going to do a recording this week with OBS and see how it turns out.