Hi. I have a somewhat odd question, but I'm hoping that someone here may be able to give me a few ideas.
Does anyone know of a technological solution that could be used to voice chat with a small group (10-15) people, preferably using wifi, smart-phone apps, etc.? Long story short, I'm probably teaching a class next semester (starting in January) where we'll be visiting a few server rooms, and I'd love to be able to talk to the class members, without having to yell over the server room noise. My thought was that if all or most of them have smart phones, someone must have done something like this before. Currently we're considering several options, including - Google Hangouts or Skype - Both of these are limited to 10 participants (though possibly more in a view-only mode). I'm also not certain how much uplink bandwidth we would be able to manage, so if it requires hitting an off-site server, it may be a problem. Also we don't really need the - Something VOIP driven (asterisk, etc), possibly on something small and portable like a RPI (eg. http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/), and just use some kind of soft-phone on the individual devices. I'm so very unfamiliar with this, I'm not sure if it would work or not, or how well. It seems a little over-engineered, but that's just my initial impression. Anything else we should be considering? -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
