Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-20 Thread Martijn van Exel
Serge, please include me in the hangout invite as well. Martijn On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, During the OSM US Board meeting today, we discussed the new Import and Large Edit Committee. We will have it on 12/20 at 8:30pm EST on a Google

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Or if you'd like to join, and Google+ is a problem, please drop me a line. I object to the use of google anything. That requires people to agree to their privacy policies in order to participate in OSM, and I think OSM should have a policy against such requirement or encouragement. (That

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread Kathleen Danielson
Hi Greg, That's an interesting point. What alternatives would you suggest for virtual meetings? KD On Dec 18, 2012 8:56 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Or if you'd like to join, and Google+ is a problem, please drop me a line. I object to the use of google anything. That requires

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
The Hangout moderator can dial folks in on a regular phone (cell / landline). You don't need to have any Google footprint to use this function as far as I know. You just need to provide your number to Serge and he can add you at the beginning of the call. I am glad that Google offers this,

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Kathleen Danielson kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com writes: Hi Greg, That's an interesting point. What alternatives would you suggest for virtual meetings? KD I do not know of alternatives. In open source groups I participate in, it's email and IRC. At work, we pay for phone bridges (audio

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
Greg, It's hard to strike a balance between being as inclusive, as productive, and as budget conscious as possible. For example, the US Chapter board uses Google Hangouts extensively because we believe that this service represents a sweet spot in that balance right now. That said, we are always

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread Brian DeRocher
Greg, I agree with you regarding google privacy. One alternative is XMPP (jabber) + Jingle [1][2]. This is after all what Google Talk and Hangouts is based on [3]. [1] http://wiki.xmpp.org:12480/web/Tech_pages/Jingle [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_%28protocol%29 [3]

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread Brian DeRocher
blink blink http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/ http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/ I hope this works as well as Apache Wave, which i was impressed with. Brian -- http://brian.derocher.org http://mappingdc.org http://about.me/brian.derocher

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread Martijn van Exel
Looks promising. How many people can participate in a video call using this? Does it require (proprietary) plug-ins? If it meets basic functional and technical requirements (up to 10 people in a video call, no proprietary plugins required, no weird or excessive server requirements, some form of

Re: [Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-18 Thread JasonWoof
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/ http://incubator.apache.org/openmeetings/ I am not interested in installing proprietary software. Especially not Flash, with such a horrifyingly insecure/buggy history. I assume there are a decent amount of OSM folks are also free software people, so I

[Talk-us] Imports and Large Edit Committee Meeting 12/20

2012-12-17 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, During the OSM US Board meeting today, we discussed the new Import and Large Edit Committee. We will have it on 12/20 at 8:30pm EST on a Google Hangout, which is a format that's worked well in the past. If you're like to join the Hangout, please drop me a line. Or if you'd like to