Hangouts

My work and telepresence setup.

As a work-from-home software engineer, I'm always looking for ways to improve communication with co-workers and clients to help bridge the distance gap. At the beginning of October, a colleague and I decided to devote the month to an extreme collaboration experiment we called Maker's Month. We had been using Google Hangouts for meetings with great effectiveness, so we asked ourselves: Why not leave a hangout running all day, to provide the illusion of working in the same room? To that end, we decided to take our two offices -- separated spatially by 1,000 miles -- and merge them into one with the miracle of modern telecommunications.