IRC tonight

[blu at vl.com (Tom Metro)]

I wrote:

> Hmmm...someone mentioned a BLU IRC channel a while ago. That could be
> used for question submission, with the speaker directly observing or
> a volunteer relaying the questions. (Though given how many people 
> bring laptops to the meetings, I can see it now...half the room would
> be chatting on IRC and the speaker would be largely ignored.  :-)  )

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

If you need an IRC client, Gaim[1] is one of several.

1. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/


> 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).

Anyone with some free cell phone minutes and a bluetooth headset they 
can loan to the speaker care to try this out?

  -Tom

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