晨读一年的复盘会议
Had my one year review at work last week. I met with my boss for an hour and we talked about what I was doing well and what I was doing poorly. I talk to him face to face a few times a week using video conferencing. I also have a mentor at Microsoft who helps me navigate the maze. He didn't have a web camera so I just had one sent to him so that it showed up on his desk one morning. I probably do two or three videos calls per day now.
上周我工作一年了。 我和老板会面了一个小时，我们谈到了我做得好和我做得不好。 我每周通过视频会议与他面对面交谈几次。 我在Microsoft也有一位导师，可以帮助我应对迷宫。 他没有网络摄像头，所以我只给他一个摄像头，所以有一天早上它出现在他的桌子上。 我现在可能每天要进行两三个视频通话。
LiveMeeting-大型会议室会议 (LiveMeeting - Big Conference Room Meetings)
I had a meeting this morning with six manager-types in a conference room and I finally felt like I was contributing and could be heard. I hate doing conference calls these days. You can't be heard, you're constantly asking "who is speaking?"
今天早上，我在会议室开会，与六位经理人开会，我终于感到自己正在做出自己的贡献，并能被听到。 这些天我讨厌电话会议。 您无法听到，您一直在问“谁在说话？”
In the meeting today we used a Microsoft Roundtable for the meeting. In the last ten meetings I've asked all ten organizers to book a room with a Roundtable. Only two have. The belief is that it's hard to hook up, "I've never used it before," or just "I'll see what can we can do," then nothing.
在今天的会议中，我们使用了Microsoft圆桌会议。 在最近的十次会议中，我要求所有十个组织者预订一个带有圆桌会议的房间。 只有两个。 人们认为，很难挂勾“我以前从未使用过”，或者只是“我会看到我们能做些什么”，然后什么都不做。
They are SO easy to use. Literally you plug it into your laptop and start a LiveMeeting. That's it. The drivers were already included with Live Meeting so there's literally no setup time.
它们非常易于使用。 从字面上看，您将其插入笔记本电脑并启动LiveMeeting。 而已。 这些驱动程序已经包含在Live Meeting中，因此实际上没有设置时间。
You can't believe (or maybe you can) how much better the experience is for me when we use this. The Roundtable stitches together 5 cameras at 15fps into a 1056x144 panorama that covers a full 360 degrees. It also has a 640x480 square "active speaker" video. The Roundtable knows where people are in the room physically based on sound and will automatically create a square video view (as if each person had their own personal camera) and will 'cut' between them keeping the active speaker in view. This totally removes the "who's speaking?" factor from meetings.
当我们使用它时，您无法相信(也许您可以相信)这种体验对我有多好。 圆桌会议以15帧/秒的速度将5台摄像机缝合在一起，形成了一个1056x144的全景图，可以覆盖整个360度。 它还具有一个640x480平方的“有源扬声器”视频。 圆桌会议根据声音知道人们在房间里的什么位置，并会自动创建一个方形的视频视图(就像每个人都有自己的个人摄像机一样)，并且会在他们之间“剪切”以保持活动发言人的视线。 这完全消除了“谁在说话？” 会议因素。
I'm going to continue to ask anyone who wants to include me in a meeting to book a room with a Roundtable. We've got at least one on each floor, sometimes two, in most buildings.
我将继续让任何想让我参加会议的人预订带有圆桌会议的房间。 在大多数建筑物中，每层至少有一个，有时是两个。
即时通讯/即时通讯 (Chat/IM)
Microsoft's got internal chat through Office Communicator which I use to talk to all sorts of folks when email would be "too much." Communicator also acts as an global address book that lets me not only find out if someone is at their desk, but also when their next free block of time is as it's integrated into Exchange/Outlook. It also lets you "tag" someone if their presence changes - like if they've returned to their office.
微软通过Office Communicator进行了内部聊天，当电子邮件“太多”时，我曾与各种人进行过交谈。 Communicator还可以用作全球通讯簿，它不仅使我了解某个人是否在他们的办公桌旁，而且还可以了解他们的下一个空闲时间是何时将其集成到Exchange / Outlook中。 它还可以让您在某人的状态发生变化时“标记”某人-就像他们已经回到办公室一样。
I also use Communicator to make quick calls to folks in the office. If people configure it correctly, it'll call their desk phones and they won't know I'm calling from my PC.
我还使用Communicator快速打给办公室里的人们。 如果人们正确配置了它，它将拨打他们的台式电话，他们将不知道我正在使用PC打电话。
分布式临时会议 (Distributed Ad-Hoc Meetings)
One of the things that Live Meeting doesn't do easily is quick meetings using video with a bunch of folks that are located all over. For this I tend to use ooVoo. It's recently added 640x480 "High Quality" calls and unlike Skype, you don't need a Logitech special camera to do it. There's rumor (and a disabled menu item) that implies ooVoo will be going even higher-res, perhaps HD?
Live Meeting很难做到的一件事就是使用视频与来自各地的一群人进行快速会议。 为此，我倾向于使用ooVoo 。 它最近添加了640x480“高质量”通话，与Skype不同，您不需要Logitech专用摄像头即可。 有传言(和禁用的菜单项)暗示ooVoo的分辨率会更高，也许是高清？
OoVoo does great through firewalls and most importantly lets me pull in folks from all over, a lot like iChat for the Mac. In fact, ooVoo is also cross-platform.
OoVoo通过防火墙发挥了出色的作用，最重要的是让我从各个方面吸引了人们，就像Mac的iChat一样。 实际上，ooVoo也是跨平台的。
屏幕共享 (Screen Sharing)
Often I've got to show my screen to someone I'm talking to. Live Meeting works for this, but it's a little heavy. I use both SharedView and CrossLoop, in that order. If SharedView fails to make it through the firewall (rarely happens) then I'll use CrossLoop. SharedView has the benefit that it supports sharing to up to 16 people and they just log in with their Live ID. CrossLoop is based on VNC and is a little slower to react, but I've never seen it not work. If you pay attention to the UI in CrossLoop and click "skip" at the right times, you can use it without creating an account. CrossLoop is great for fixing your parent's computer also.
通常，我必须向与之交谈的人显示屏幕。 Live Meeting可以做到这一点，但是有点累。 我同时使用SharedView和CrossLoop 。 如果SharedView无法通过防火墙(很少发生)，那么我将使用CrossLoop。 SharedView的优势在于它支持最多与16个人共享，他们只需使用自己的Live ID登录即可。 CrossLoop基于VNC，React速度稍慢，但我从未见过它不起作用。 如果您注意CrossLoop中的UI并在正确的时间单击“跳过”，则可以在不创建帐户的情况下使用它。 CrossLoop也非常适合修复父母的计算机。
未来：将脚放在网络摄像头上-网真机器人？ (Future: Putting Feet on my Web Cam - Telepresence Robots?)
Chris Sells (who also works remotely) and I have been brainstorming and prototyping ideas for smarter telepresence. Chris really wants a high-res camera with an optical zoom so he can see whiteboards.
克里斯·塞尔斯(Chris Sells)(他也可以远程工作)，我一直在集思广益并制作原型，以实现更智能的网真。 克里斯真的想要一台具有光学变焦功能的高分辨率相机，这样他就可以看到白板。
Chris would be happy "without feet." He would like a computer/device/system that someone could pick up and take to a meeting - basically his disembodied virtual head - so he could participate in meetings.
克里斯会“没有脚”会很高兴。 他希望有人可以接机并参加会议的计算机/设备/系统-基本上是他无形的虚拟头-因此他可以参加会议。
I'd really like be able to "walk" into someone's office. Just pop in to see if they are there. I want to get involved in hallway conversations.
我真的很想能够“走进”某人的办公室。 只需弹出查看它们是否在那里。 我想参与走廊对话。
Chris and I had the opportunity to remotely drive/beta-test a Telepresence robot from RoboDynamics. They've built their software on .NET 3.0 and the robot runs XP.
克里斯和我有机会对RoboDynamics的网真机器人进行远程驾驶/ Beta测试。 他们已经在.NET 3.0上构建了软件，并且该机器人运行了XP。
It was pretty sweet. They've got a 26x Optical Zoom and pan/tilt/zoom on the camera. There's a screen for your "head" so that folks can recognize you as you wander around. I was able to walk all over their office. The control console includes sonar and bumpers so when I got close to bumping into the fridge in their office kitchen I could "see" the distance to the fridge and avoid it.
真是太好了。 他们在相机上具有26倍光学变焦和平移/倾斜/变焦。 屏幕上有一个“头部”屏幕，以便人们在您四处游荡时可以识别您。 我能够走遍他们的办公室。 控制台包括声纳和保险杠，因此当我接近撞到他们办公室厨房的冰箱时，我可以“看到”冰箱的距离并避开它。
There's a lot to think about when it comes to letting a virtual beastie into your company. Is it on the network? Which network? What access? Who is it logged in as? What if it's stolen?
关于让虚拟野兽进入您的公司，有很多需要考虑的问题。 在网络上吗？ 哪个网络？ 什么访问？ 以谁身份登录？ 如果被偷了怎么办？
As I understand it, RoboDynamics is looking to raise another round of funding so if you know someone, give them a call. Their stuff is REALLY impressive and cleanly implemented. There's video of the robot in action below.
据我了解， RoboDynamics正在寻求另一轮融资，因此，如果您认识某人，请给他们打电话。 他们的东西确实令人印象深刻并且干净利落地实现了。 以下是操作中的机器人的视频。
Microsoft's doing a lot around Robotics and Robotics Research. Hopefully there will be a real telepresence solution soon for remote workers. Maybe some Microsoftie will read this blog and let me beta test a robot or future telepresence platform...hint hint.
微软在机器人技术和机器人技术研究方面做了大量工作。 希望不久后将有一个真正的远程呈现解决方案供远程工作者使用。 也许有些Microsoftie将阅读此博客，并让我对机器人或将来的远程呈现平台进行Beta测试...提示。
未来：大屏幕立体门户？ (Future: Big Screen Cubical Portal?)
Cisco has a telepresence platform that's pretty slick. Basically it's a really high res (1080p), really high framerate, low compression, 65-inch flat-screen or series of flat-screens.
思科的网真平台非常漂亮。 基本上，它是真正的高分辨率(1080p)，真正的高帧率，低压缩率的65英寸纯平屏幕或一系列纯平屏幕。
If I could have an office with one of these screens set up, then folks could just pop by my office to say Hi. I could have a "portal" between my house and work up on campus in Redmond.
如果我可以设置一个带有这些屏幕之一的办公室，那么人们就可以在我的办公室旁边弹出说“嗨”。 我可以在我的房屋之间建立一个“门户”，然后在雷德蒙德的校园里工作。
I thought I might be able to cobble something together with Skype or Office Communicator, maybe LiveMeeting, and some automation APIs. I could get a large monitor from Costco, maybe a no-name-brand 42" screen.
我以为我可以将Skype或Office Communicator，LiveMeeting和一些自动化API结合在一起。 我可以从Costco购买一台大型显示器，也许是一个不知名品牌的42英寸屏幕。
However, the bosses nixed buying the screens. It's funny, it costs about $250 to fly me up there, plus maybe $200 for a few nights in a hotel. If I went up just four times, that would be enough to by two 42" LCDs. Then I could just get a few PCs and I'd be in business.
但是，老板们拒绝购买这些屏幕。 真可笑，它带我飞到那里要花费大约250美元，再加上在酒店住几晚的费用可能是200美元。 如果我只提高四倍，那足以用两个42英寸的LCD显示器就够了。然后我可以买几台PC，就可以开展业务了。
The things that's been taking me the most time is:
花费最多的时间是：
Equipment: Setting up people who don't have these tools (software, webcams)
设备：设置没有这些工具(软件，网络摄像头)的人员
Patience: Convincing people that setting these things up are the ONLY way I can effectively do my job.
耐心：说服人们设置这些内容是我有效完成工作的唯一方法。
I am absolutely convinced that video conferencing builds relationships almost as much as showing up in person. If you've got the bandwidth to spare, talking to someone in F2F (face to face) via webcam conveys way more information than a phone call. Also, using a 640x480 webcam and software is a breath of fresh air when compared to the video conferencing that you may have used in the past. Another few years and we'll have clear 720p or greater, commodity video conferencing.
我绝对相信视频会议建立的关系几乎和亲自出席一样多。 如果您已通过比电话网络摄像头的方式传达更多信息，得到了带宽备用，在F2F与人交谈(面对面)。 此外，与您过去可能使用的视频会议相比，使用640x480网络摄像头和软件可以使您呼吸新鲜。 再过几年，我们将拥有清晰的720p或更高分辨率的商品视频会议。
Do you work from home? What tools to you use to manage your remote life? What tools would you like to use?
你在家工作吗？ 您使用什么工具来管理远程生活？ 您想使用什么工具？
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