We use Skype for our online collabortation. Look below for links to download Skype, links to the Action Group Chats and hints on how to use Skype in the DataPortability Project.
1. Download Skype
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2. Join a Skype chat room
- Policy - Who owns data? What is protected? What are the legal concerns?
- Technical - What mix of architectures and protocols
- Evangelism - How do we get the world to adopt data portability?
- Implementation - What are the best ways to help a service support data portability?
- Steering - DataPortability Project management and operations discussion.
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3. Ten Ways to Jump In
- type "/help" in a chat for a list of advanced chat features
- Update your Skype profile (use a DP avatar?)
- Lurk a little, see what people are talking about
- Introduce yourself or ask a question
- Share a link
- Bridge the wiki, email lists and chats with a little copying and pasting
- Send someone a file
- Set a topic for discussion
- Add "dataportability" as a friend
- Bookmark a chat
- add something here. this is a wiki!
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Why Skype?
We've discussed this on and off.
Things we like:
- 100s of millions of users, most non-technical - could be good when we move to consumer-facing activity
- Scales well
- Catches up, even if you've been off Skype for a while
- Easy to send private/direct messages and start new side conversations
- Reliable client for all desktop platforms and many mobile ones
- Searchable history (on client)
- Client API allows useful bots
- Availability presence - seeing who is online becomes a big deal since we're scattered around many time zones
- Conference calling for small groups (up to 25) with high quality audio
- Ability to edit your own messages for a while, and have them propagate to other users
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Things we like less:
- Operated by a company (vs. a community)
- Requires the Skype client, yet another download for some
- No automatic archive to a public site
- No notification in multichat of updates occuring in other channels (google groups, wiki)
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