On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 06:06:37 -0700 (PDT), John Hebert 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. > It could work. Occasionally my connection does drop completely, so people would have to expect that. Other than that, it sounds great to me. I'll start experimenting with different voice chat software and see if I can get that old mic to work. > 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. > I have a cell, but it's with Tracfone, thus it's unit based. If the broadcast would be over 20 minutes (which is likely with questions), this wouldn't amount to anything good. In addition, I have never used any conferencing service with my cell. > > 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. > This sounds like the best option to me. > > 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 > It shouldn't be hard. A sandbox can be set up inside ssh so that only screen may be run. And granting screen users the ability only to view the session, not modify it, is easy. > __________________________________________________ > 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 >
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