My team uses ooVoo for video conferencing our Daily Scrum. It’s been great and very reliable. My only complaint is a lack of whiteboard or desktop sharing, but we’ve overcome these obstacles with other tools (see SharedView). Over the months, I’ve come to acquire an expectation of what the experience should be like and, from that, a Code of Conduct. Here it is:
Don’t Be a Slob – Just cause you’re in your bedroom or PJ’s doesn’t mean I want to know about it. Put a decent shirt on and brush your hair. Same goes for yawning, coughing, and every other table manner. Cover your mouth, mute the Mic, whatever.
Have a Headset – I’m sure some guy out there is ecstatic about the next step in the evolution of the speaker phone, but they still suck in comparison to a headset and Mic that are placed against their corresponding body part. You’re laptop’s built in speaker and Mic are no better, so fork out the 10 bucks and get a cheap headset you cheap-arse.
Go Full or Go Home – I’m glad your torrents are racing, but your video looks like the corner of your head just entered the Atari zone. Stop downloading the latest SUSE iso for a few minutes and give me your full bandwidth attention.
