Re: Git Inclusion Summit

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:07:26AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

> > Hopefully everybody should have a good-enough internet connection to
> > stream a low-quality audio-only feed so that they can listen in and
> > participate via the chat feature. This is what we did at the
> > Contributor's Summit in March (I know we had a number of text-only
> > participants in time-zones where it was late, etc.).
> > 
> > What are your thoughts?
> 
> Jitsi w/ audio-only certainly seems to be a step in the right
> direction and would be more inclusive.
> 
> Is there any speech-to-text transcription done for the hearing
> (or extremely bandwidth) impaired?
> 
> It'd ideally go to #git on IRC (or something that doesn't
> require a browser to trigger swap storms on old systems).

Whether we have automatic speech-to-text conversion or not, I think it
would be good for people involved to take and publish notes summarizing
the conversation. One of the important things about our usual async
written communication is that it gives people time to organize their
thoughts and say what they want succinctly. Live conversations are often
full of false starts and rambling. That's OK, and a necessary part of
the process. But if you want a wider audience to follow along, it helps
to turn that into something more time efficient for readers.

-Peff