Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
>>> - People who had been invited to this meeting and can not attend are
>>> able to join via voice conferencing and/or Skype.
>>
>> Skype =! VoIP.  One of the marketing or development goals for 2010,
>> should be a voice infrastructure to go with the mailing list
>> infrastructure.
> 
> we have found a quite good conferencing service that provides dial-in in
> various countries and will be used for the upcoming marketing call. It
> does not cover all countries, but it's a good start. If there's a need
> for more, we can develop something.
> 
>> We are missing:
>>
>>   voice conferencing
> 
> No - see the upcoming marketing call I plan to have regularly. ;-) 

That would be dial-in conferencing not generic voice conferencing.  SIP,
or another open standard, is what is needed to ensure open access to the
conferencing.

> And also see this wiki page that has been online for some years and
> announced on the lists, barely noticed by anyone:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Phone_Conferences

Noticed but not used.  It's a nice try, but as you mention, it does not
cover most countries.  Additionally, it costs to participate.  Many
regions have a per-minute service charge even for local phone usage.
The "penny gap" is not just psychological, even with a budget a poorly
managed employer can have deadly amounts of paperwork.

However, the link to dimdim at the bottom is a better idea.

Whatever is used, it must be available for anyone on any platform and in
any country to use, free-of-charge.  Dial-in only works for a small
subset.

/Lars

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