Personally, this has limited appeal. I would want to attend meetings to meet face-to-face with folks and have a good time. It's also a chance to get out of the house. I think that would be stifled with a 'webex' experience. It has as much appeal as those Redhat web conference emails I get. This is purely from my perspective, but I would want to meet somewhere that I can interact with you guys face-to-face, "ideally" over a few beers. Maybe others like the idea of a web conference though. It's certainly 'revolutionary' but probably not suited towards something like OCLUG. Jeff On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Bill Strosberg <oclug [ at ] strosberg [ dot ] com>wrote: > 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? > > -- > Bill Strosberg > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >