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.