Ummmm...... we already have that. GNOME Meeting went in build 53, and
the USB webcam support just went in last week -- or the week before.
Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:34 am, Stephen Harpster wrote:
We're wondering if this would increase participation.
You mentioned this previously and several folks made comments about the
participation of the community, probably more than we'll need for a long
time....(even mine;-) Unfortunately, most of the comments were in regard to
your "community grenade" which you tossed into our mail clients, in your
mention of the GPLv3 and/or how various issues face the OpenSolaris
community.
However, I wanted to offer a suggestion on how you could help our community so
that we could get more participation from them, and at the same time for Sun
to reach out to them and help them understand all facets of the system.
This year is the 2nd year of OpenSolaris, which I suspect you know as well as
anyone...;-)
We have a lot of user groups spread out over the globe, and there's been a lot
of great speakers. But unfortunately we fail to reach our community as a
whole, as far as collaboration, or ability to share our meetings in real time
over the wire.
We can have call-in, and that is very helpful, I think realtime voice is
mandatory for what I would like to see happen (could be skype, or similar,
but good 'ol POTS works fine for call-in participation). We need video also.
I really think we as a community fail to leverage the very software we fought
so hard to get, RealPlayer10.
I would like to see a virtual user group, where all the participants might
connect with RealPlayer10 to get a live video of the meeting, which could be
anything from a presentation, to hands on training, technology updates, and
things that user groups do...
If you could help us with some type of multiplex video software (RealServer
possibly) and have some of your folks help us figure out what we need, to
have live broadcast using RealPlayer10 as the client, that would be
excellent.
This would help our community participate more than any license would. We have
the technology available today, but we're not able to leverage it properly.
With some help we can make some huge gains in educating and reaching out.
Honestly, even if we had to pay BTV's outrageous prices, if we could
broadcast 1 meeting a month and get up to XXX number of connections, this
could be money well spent on the community. I think we can figure something
out that doesn't have so much re-occurring cost. This is something you should
consider more than what license we have.
--
Stephen Harpster
Director, Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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