Hi Michael Great Idea! And Swiss German works well! Count me in!
Thanx Mala On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Michael Vorburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo zusammen, > > How about we organize a conference call for a mutual update & > discussion? Interested? > > I was at first hesitant to put the idea on this list, because if even > only 50% of the current approx. 36 subscribers (!) to this list > participate in such a call, it's probably going to be chaotic... but > then I thought in the interest of openness, it should be announced > here. I'm assuming (??) that only a much smaller core group will > actually really call in to participate, and we'd send an update to all > list subscribers of the call afterwards. Let me try like this, I > realize it's may more difficult than I think, but hey, we'll know > better after we tried! ;-) So: > > * Suggested Date & Time & Duration: Next Wednesday March 26th, 19 > o'clock (Swiss time, doh!), max. 1h. If you can not make that and very > strongly really would love to be in the call, please suggest an > alternate Date & Time by responding to this email, to the mailing > list. > > * Discussion can be held in Swiss German unless there are any > non-German participants in the call (to be determined at the start of > call by simply asking around) > > * Looking for a volunteer who is willing to play "scribe" and take > notes and send a summary to the list after the call > * Schlage Michele als "Moderator" vor.. isch gued? Scribe not > necessarily same as moderator, probably better not. Who's volunteering > as scribe?? > > * Themenvorschläge meinerseits, please feel free to add more > suggestions when responding (see below): 1) Gegenseitiges Updaten, 2) > OLPC.ch goals "refinement", 3) Next specific Steps, Priorities? > > * Infrastructure, how to: Hm... ;-) Let me suggest a Skype "public > chat". I have never actually tried this, but it seems pretty > straightforward - looks like just clicking on e.g. > > http://ui.skype.com/ui/0/3.0.0.198/en/publicchats-join?skypename=mike_vorburger&topic=OLPC.ch&blob=5KNudxEsbQp0p5UOeb7cFm0iUzawWJ15ar4SvSPibDtpegrm275jclai_dfNr4hmQ9HPPAL5JtXpng > on the agreed date and time (does this link stay valid until then?) > should get us together. -- Now, I realize there may be people who will > not like Skype... can I suggest: People who will not be able to be in > the call and just want to comment in general about Skype or FOSS etc., > please abstain; sorry & thanks. People who genuinely want to be in the > call and honestly have a problem with Skype (including being > completely against installing the Linux version that Skype offers, > even just for this call?), please speak up by responding to this > email. If you know of an equally easy alternative, please suggest it. > We will however not "experiment" with technology, within the scope of > a conf. call, you'll know what I mean. A possible fallback could be a > traditional POTS (normal phone) conference call number. If anybody > raises concerns against Skype and can not propose a viable simple > alternative, I volunteer to look into setting up such a number (via my > day job office probably). The number of possible attendees may be more > limited than with Skype in that case. > > Please respond to this email to the list (not just to me; just do a > Reply which should automatically go to the list) with a brief "I'll > probably participate" so that we get a feeling for the number of > participants (and language). > > Please keep your email open on the agreed date and time, just in case > we need to send a new link or number or something. > > I'm curious if and how this will work out... > > Regards, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > OLPC-ch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-ch > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Switzerland >
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