Assemblies are a new experiment at Resonate ā a place to meet other members, learn whatās going on, and share and discuss ideas for the co-op. Orbiting an assembly are social hangouts, skillshares, and music parties organized by co-op members. If youād like to host something this weekend ( @datafruits), share your idea in the forum and drop a link! Weāll get your meetup on the calendar.
Iāve added a poll in the original post above from @richjensenās suggestion. Score the different proposals on a 0-4 scale to show your interest in discussing them. Weāll introduce the proposals with the highest scores first. Hope to see yāall there tomorrow/today!
Thanks to all who came today! Iāll have the video posted as soon as I figure out how and where to upload it.
Bizarrely, my video recording settings on OBS left my own voice out of the video ā but notā¦ all the time? Iām still new to OBS and I must have set it up wrong. So the video will be there, but I myself will be oddly voiceless in it. Gotta make mistakes to learn!
There can be issues when setting up the different audio channels on OBS as to what is recorded (the audio from your mic vs the audio coming out of the computer vs both), itās a common problem on Twitch recordings for example that some or all of the audio is missing.
The dropouts however are a bit weirder, maybe thereās a volume threshold for recording?
Iāve started writing a how-to guide for community assemblies. Also, I have an idea for addressing the ācomment buttonā desire raised by @richjensen. The solution Iām scheming up isnāt a comment button, but I feel confident yāall will like it.
Sorry to miss the session again! I find the inbuilt server-side recording in our meet.coop provided service works fineā¦ Better quality than a local recording, and available from the servers for easy access from the room webpage. See here, from around 1.45 onwardsā¦ Creating your own personal rooms with GreenLight - YouTube
The only snag is that you have to wait a few hours before the server side processing finishes before a long meeting will appear in the list.
Yeah thatās much easier for sure! Unfortunately, it doesnāt record usersā cursors. We need that on the recording since its so key to the assembly format. Perhaps meet.coop can enable that. Iāll reach out.
I liked the ālowest level interractionā of just pointing your cursor to a space, it had an almost āvideogameyā vibe where youāre in the simplest visualization of a room and just head towards a specific area to say a specific thing.
The only āgood gameplayā addition I could see would be if you could always be one click away to āfreezeā and āunfreezeā your position ie. I position myself in the improvement box, click āx buttonā it freezes my democracy pointer (the dot with my handle name) in that space and my mouse pointer is back to its regular behavior just for me alone to see, and then when I got to say my improvement pitch, I can unfreeze pressing āx buttonā again so that my pointer is āmy dot character in the democracy fieldā again.
How do you know whose dot it is in that configuration? Because the handy thing about moving your cursor is it has your handle attached to it and thereās virtually nothing else to do beside ābe in that areaā. So if I could just like, punch a dot in there and the dot had, say, a specific color + my handle name (basically : if the handle name was always displayed near any drawing someone makes as to know who drew what), then we could use it this way :
I go to āimprovementā area, I punch a dot (easy enough itās one click away), the dot lives on with my name attached to it, and once I said my thing, I erase it.
Iām really just trying to find the thing that requires the LEAST to learn for anyone not used / comfortable with computers.
Drawings I think are in general a terrible idea because not everyone is comfortable with their writing/drawing skills, be it with a mouse or not, and itāll necessarily deter a lot of people.
Polling is one thing but thatās not all weāre trying to achieve with the democracy field, rather : polling in that field is the easy part, the whole point of the field is to articulate the discussion prior to voting without all the hard work of determining priority of speach defered to someone and without the risk of having people not speaking because of a complex set of rules that can potentially make them feel uncomfortable.
Here itās really all very simple and straightforward and we should try to keep that aspect.
@LLK I was agreeing! Just wanted to share the drawing and polling stuff thatās also available. No need to use it at all ā¦But then I do LOVE drawing.