On 2013-06-25 at 21:56, Shane Celis wrote: > Yes. This sounds like an excellent idea. I'm happy to record a talk > and do the Q&A with an audio/video connection. Thank you for the > opportunity.
It will be nice to have your talk. People, what kind of software do you suggest for doing VoIP, possibly with video? We'll need to use that for Frankie as well. My experience with Ekiga is quite negative, but I can usually make it work *if* I'm not behind some ridiculous firewall; and occasionally calls may only work in one direction. I've had mixed success with SFLphone. The other candidate I know is Pidgin with audio XMPP, which I don't think I've ever tried. I've yet to test any VoIP software at the venue but I will, probably next week. However I don't trust any of these to work without having thoroughly tested them first, speaking with our GHM speaker on the other side, using the same network connection he'll be using during the meeting. Do you have any other free VoIP software to recommend? As an aside: once I even tried to concoct something simple by myself using netcat and speex glued by a bash script, but the thing is less trivial than it sounds. In practice you ought to use a lossy protocol otherwise network latency accumulates, and becomes intolerable. I lost interest at a certain point, however I'm sure that with some more patience we could put together some simple utility. Regards, -- Luca Saiu Home page: http://ageinghacker.net GNU epsilon: http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon Marionnet: http://marionnet.org
