On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 05:22:33PM -0400, John C Nash wrote:
> I think that we should be considering "online" options. I doubt (maybe this
> is personal
> bias) that it will be popular as a full-time alternative, but I support
> exploring the
> options and trying it out, as I can see how it could fill a void.
For some time I think Bart was video recording meeting talks and posting
them online... I think this was a worthwhile endeavour even though I
never used the service myself.
> JN
>
> On 03/22/2012 12:55 PM, Bill Strosberg wrote:
> > Further to my "I wonder" comments about the club future and how we meet,
> > what IS the state of things out there? Has anyone delved into larger
> > scale virtual meeting presence? I use telephone conference calls
> > frequently, Skype on a small infrequent scale and have dabbled in
> > Asterisk a little. Cisco does a good commercial job of packaging this
> > for commercial use, but what about open source options?
> >
> > From an open source perspective, here we have a distributed application
> > where clients could do a lot of data reduction processing to minimise
> > traffic. Participant's client computing resources could make the load
> > do-able. Kind of like IRC with optional video and audio elements.
> > Generating a centrally available post-event "presentation" would be
> > interesting. It seems all the pieces may be available but arranging the
> > parts collectively would be a challenge if it doesn't already exist.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Bill Strosberg
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