On Sunday 26 November 2006 00:33, Darcy Brodie wrote: > Darren > I will look into this one. > > The meetings that we are looking at this for is Board Meetings. We may > need access to whiteboards, and I would rather have it capable of anyone > present being able to speak to everyone else, rather than having to type > their comments, and video would be nice. > > I just glanced at the web site for freeconference.com, and I noticed > that the maximum duration for a conference is 5 hours (that one is at > 0.10 per person per minute - that would really add up fast! for 13 > people, for a total of 5 hours, would be $420.00), or for 3 hours for > their standard package. They are also only a tele-conference company - > no video of any kind from what it appears. > > Currently, our meetings start at 10:00 and go until about 3:00 pm. A > conference meeting would likely be shorter, as it would likely reduce > the amount of social discussions that also occur during the meetings > > I currently am on the Shaw Extreme SOHO package at home > > On a side note, I may be completely out to lunch on my expectations, and > it may not be possilbe >
It makes me wonder if bittorrent type technology could be used to eliminate the need for these central servers and/or one hub with huge bandwidth. If you could utilize everyone's bandwidth somehow, you could hopefully do realtime video without a huge pipe. If it was cross platform and open source that would be a sweet deal. Of course, this is not a small order :) sitting here thinking about it, it may not even work with real-time data. > Darcy > > Darren L wrote: > > I've used http://www.freeconference.com/ for teleconference meetings, > > and it's been fantastic. There is a fee for long distance (or 800) > > number access, so factor that in if it's even an option. > > > > What type of tools are required? Streaming video, whiteboard, > > multiple presenters? > > > > What kind of bandwidth do you have available to your home? > > > > > > On 11/25/06, *Darcy Brodie* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Hello > > For a non-profit group that I am working with, they have asked > > what > > is available for web conference software. The average meeting > > would have > > up to 14 attendees, with the possibilities of more at certain > > times of > > the year. This would not be our primary means of holding > > meetings, but, > > when the weather is not the friendliest (like tomorrow), a web > > conference could save a drive to Red Deer for a 5 hour meeting. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions / recommendations for such > > software? I > > am currently hosting their web site on a CentOS server at my home, > > and if I could install it there and reduce costs, it would be great. > > > > Google.ca <http://Google.ca> seems to prefer to send me to web > > conference services, which, > > primarily due to the per minute costs, I would like to avoid > > > > Thanks for your assistance > > > > Darcy Brodie > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
