On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 05:22:33PM -0400, John C Nash wrote: > I think that we should be considering "online" options. I doubt (maybe this is personal > bias) that it will be popular as a full-time alternative, but I support exploring the > options and trying it out, as I can see how it could fill a void. For some time I think Bart was video recording meeting talks and posting them online... I think this was a worthwhile endeavour even though I never used the service myself. > JN > > On 03/22/2012 12:55 PM, Bill Strosberg 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 slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________