Google Plus Hangouts are built on a technology called WebRTC, which is open source and will be integrated in more browsers over time. So, I think it's a promising direction to go.
http://www.webrtc.org/home I think we should give it a try for our purposes. -Ben On Aug 13, 2011, at 12:03 PM, C. Olofson wrote: > Hello US Marketing; > > So far, we've test-driven IRC and Mumble for our meetings. Recently, I've > been playing around with Google plus: It has a video conference function > called "hangout" which (I believe) supports up to 10 people. > > Although it is a video-conferencing tool, it doesn't require a camera for > just the audio portion. A few questions: > > 1. Has anyone tried hangout and, if so, what were the results? > 2. Would you be willing to join Google Plus & use hangout? > > It ain't exactly open sauce but, then again, it's probably a step in the > right direction (away from Skype). > > thanks, > -Craig > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > Benjamin Horst [email protected] 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
