IRC tonight

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

On 3/21/07, Tom Metro <blu at vl.com> wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> While we haven't yet accomplished live simulcasts of meetings, I figured
> we could give the IRC aspect a try tonight. It may prove to be useful in
> some way for the people physically present at the meeting. Hopefully my
> prediction of an ignored speaker won't happen.
>
> #BLU on irc.freenode.net

I'm not sure how this could work, since IRC is text-based; IRC participants
would be unable to see or hear the meeting.


> > The open source Gizmo Project provides free conference calling:
> > http://www.gizmoproject.com/conf-calling.html
> >
> > Participants can connect via any SIP VoIP client, or use a regular
> > phone (at the expense of a long distance call).

This could work. It's too late for the March BLU meeting, but I just
set up a gizmo account and got a conference call number that's
apparently supposed to be permanent:

    598-9685

We can give this a try next time. Off the top of my head, it would
make sense to have one laptop at the meeting with an decent
microphone to provide a listen-only audio feed to the conference
call, and maybe connect (or un-mute) a speaker on that laptop for
Q&A before and after the presentation.

I'm not sure if videoconferencng would be feasible, but perhaps we could
do a webcam video stream in parallel with the voice conference.

Does anyone want to voluneer their laptop for the in-meeting conference
call connection at the April BLU meeting?

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