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On 9/4/06, John Hebert <johnahebert at yahoo.com> wrote: > --- Dabreegster IRCUser <dabreegster at gmail.com> wrote: > > The idea of providing a live ASCII-art stream could > > work. Talking at > > the same time would be ideal, but the only > > connection available to me > > is dialup. > > > > I doubt any sort of realtime voice chat > > would be an option > > for me. > > I don't think two-way chat would be ideal. I attend > lots of conference calls as part of my job and I can > verify that it can lead to very confusing > conversations when you have too many people speaking > at once. I think it would work much better to have > one-way voice chat, or "broadcast", to the > participants. Questions for the presenter can be > handled via IRC. This is how most Internet based > presentations for a large audience is handled. > > I can remember using voice chat over dial-up, way back > in the day. Quality wasn't great, but it worked. The > only other traffic would be text data through a ssh > channel. Your voice traffic could go to a central > server that would one-way broadcast to the > participants. Not having to handle two-way voice > traffic would help with your bandwidth. I'm just not > sure of the best tools/methods to do this. > > An idea just occurred to me: is there a > free/very-cheap voice conferencing service out there? > Dabreegster, do you have a cell phone? If the answer > is yes to both, then that would solve the problem. > > > In addition, I lack a working microphone. > > That can easily be rectified. I'm sure I have a PC > somewhere in my box of junk. If not, I'll bet someone > else on the mailing list has one they are willing to > give to you. > > > The discussion bit > > of the meeting could be hosted in the IRC channel, > > Sure, if voice chat is not an option. In fact, if the > audience was large, it would probably work best to > have questions posted via the IRC channel, so the > presenter's voice wouldn't be interrupted. > > > and I could > > demonstrate things through screen at the same time. > > Is this OK with > > everybody? Are there better ideas? > > We also need is a server where people could connect to > for the presentation. I was thinking of using some > Linux Live CD distro with just an ssh server running > to minimize the security risks. Then, we would just > need a list of participants and their email addresses > to send them their username/passwords and event > information. We could also use the #brlug IRC channel > for questions and chat during the presentation. > > John > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Adam Melancon "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein
