looks like there are Ventrilo clients for ios and android. That would work if you could find/get a ventrilo server On Sep 26, 2014 4:57 PM, "Lloyd Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
