Krita Test Day. Thoughts?

[Halla Rempt]

We discussed this at the meeting, but I wanted to add some thoughts on the mailing list:

* I think six times a year is better than twelve
* We probably should separate the working with krita from discussing our findings/seeing each other's faces, though it's worth trying with the OBS virtual webcam next time.
* It might be necessary to figure out some tasks or focus for each participant, because I was just working on my comic, like I do regularly since 2017 :-)

Halla

On Friday, 8 January 2021 05:01:40 CET Emmet O'Neill wrote:
> Hi again.
> 
> First of all, it was nice to chat, hear and see many of you during today's
> experiment. :)
> How did you all feel about Thursday's Krita Test Day?
> 
> *Personally I have kind of mixed feelings! *
> 
> On one hand, getting everybody in one place, chatting and sharing screens
> was fun in a sort of sprint-like way.
> Inexperience with the BBB platform aside, it's not a bad way to meet up,
> get to know each other, and talk about the program.
> 
> On the other hand, the BBB thing felt like a bit of a distraction away from
> the main goal; *to spend some time with Krita, really just using it,
> thinking about it, and making notes about workflow.*
> It's both hard to tune out talking to focus on the task at hand, and hard
> to deal with the dead air that comes from kind of aimlessly sitting in a
> video conference.
> On top of that, the fact that only one person can share their screen at a
> time tends to shift things towards a presentation, with one person trying
> to work under pressure and everybody else feeling compelled to watch.
> It's also pretty tiring to stay in a BBB room for hours, so I'm just not
> sure it's currently a good platform for what I hoped that we would do today.
> 
> Anyway, I still think that spending a little bit of time each month just
> *using* Krita can be a valuable thing for us, I'm just not sure that the
> BBB meetup is conducive to actually doing that.
> 
> So, I'm curious what you all thought:
> *Is dedicating one day a month to testing Krita a worthwhile thing to try
> again in February?*
> *Was using BBB a net positive or negative in relation to the goal of
> testing Krita?*
> 
> *PS: Eoin and I are going to be sharing our work from today on KA and
> social media under the #KritaTestDay hashtag. Feel free to join in if you
> want to!*
> - Emmet
> 


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