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? > I use google hangouts a lot, it work very well for me. Asterisk could also be used too; Asterisk 10 added HD conference support. However the screen share is limited. Another project to look at is Big Blue Button[1]. ProTip: They are local too, I'm sure we could see about getting access to a demo account. Otherwise, it would not take much work to get it up and running. [1] http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ -- Paul Belanger | dCAP Polybeacon | Consultant Jabber: paul [ dot ] belanger [ at ] polybeacon [ dot ] com | IRC: pabelanger (Freenode) | Blog: http://blog.polybeacon.com | Twitter: http://twitter.com/pabelanger