Further to my "I wonder" comments about the club future and how we meet,
what IS the state of things out there? Has anyone delved into larger
scale virtual meeting presence? I use telephone conference calls
frequently, Skype on a small infrequent scale and have dabbled in
Asterisk a little. Cisco does a good commercial job of packaging this
for commercial use, but what about open source options?
From an open source perspective, here we have a distributed application
where clients could do a lot of data reduction processing to minimise
traffic. Participant's client computing resources could make the load
do-able. Kind of like IRC with optional video and audio elements.
Generating a centrally available post-event "presentation" would be
interesting. It seems all the pieces may be available but arranging the
parts collectively would be a challenge if it doesn't already exist.
Thoughts?
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Bill Strosberg