hi, i justed skyped for the first time over my brandnew 256k connection. What a sensation to see my friends in europe! Real cool.
If you want to set up a collaborative environment, you could install a dimdim server http://www.dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_open_source_community_edition.html rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net Be a professional website builder: www.easysites.ug On Thursday 05 November 2009 20:51:40 Myf wrote: > Hi fellow Linux friends in Uganda, > > My name is Myf, a university student currently studying at Washington > University in St. Louis, United States. I am writing in behave of the > student group I created called "World Talks". The main idea is to have > *face-to-face > conversation with people around the world through video-conference*. > Through this practice we wish to let people know we are human beings after > all, and in the same time we hope to eliminate various misconceptions that > has brought by media coverage (i.e. Africa is always associated with war or > disease, blah blah blah). > > Our first contact is actually *Makerere University*. A group of student in > the Business School are very excited to talk to their American > counterparts. However they seem to face technical difficulties as the > president of that student group had trouble with the facility. I did a > simple research of speedtest.net and found this ISP called "Gilat Sitcom" > who actually hosts the Mak websites and it has a downloading speed up to > 13Mbps, which is way better than the minimal requirement for > videoconferencing. I wonder if someone you know more about Makerere and its > Computing ffacility or even better if you work there. I would like to ask > you for some help on our project. Overall, i think it is a very simple way > to bring real dialogs among us human beings and we would definitely like to > work together to make this thing happen as soon as possible. > > as of open source concern. we are thinking about ssh tunneling of video > signals. Do you guys know if there's any already-developed products around? > > Thank you very much, I appreciate any help possible! > > In solidarity > > Myf > November 5th _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
