[Osmf-talk] Transcripts? Re: Next OSMF board meeting this Thursday, 16th of August, at 21:00 London time

[Douglas Ssebaggala]

Similar case in the Africa/Sub-Sahara region, it's close to midnight during
the OSMF Monthly meeting, but of late, i have only missed two consecutive
monthly meetings in the last two months, have been listening in on a couple
before missing those two.

Nice efforts by Dorothea and the OSMF to share minutes for members to catch
up. I wouldn't complain for the lack of presence from other African OSMF
members, since the timezone (among other factors) could be the reason.

These scenarios are very common especially among volunteer on-line
communities/projects.

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 8:32 PM Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd rather the USD 500 be spent elsewhere. Micro grants, for example.
>
> Seriously though, these board meeting are nothing special. The fun happens
> in the working groups, local groups and so on.
>
> For now anyone willing to engage should contact the relevant group and ask
> how best. For board I think questions in advance will go a long way. For my
> old group (SotM) we have plenty that can be contributed in whatever time
> zone. For exceptional meetings, allowances can be made (e.g. I stayed up to
> the early hours - London time - to have a one off chat with the team in
> Australia).
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, 12:50 Rory McCann, <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 20/08/18 10:11, Christoph Hormann wrote:
>> > On Monday 20 August 2018, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I would like to note that while I am interested in attending these
>> >> board meetings, as someone living in the Far East, these meetings
>> >> take place during really inconvenient times.
>>  >
>> > Maybe since the open board meetings are now well established we could
>> > discuss the possibility to publish recordings of the meetings.
>>
>> IIRC the meetings are recorded for internal note taking purposes. One
>> intermediate option is to pay someone to transcribe them, and publish
>> the transcripts, rather than the actual audio.
>>
>> There are plenty of services for transcriptions (e.g. charging $1 per
>> minute), and we have oodles of pineapple fund money. As well as helping
>> people in different timezone to me, it would be useful for deaf people,
>> or those without great English listening skills, and open the
>> possibility to translate the transcripts into other languages, something
>> harder with just the audio.
>>
>> We could throw money at the problem today and try it out? For <$500 we
>> could try this for 4-6 months?
>>
>> Rory
>>
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