How is it different from the functionality Skype provides?
Cheers, MariaD Make math your own, to make your own math. http://www.naturalmath.com social math site http://groups.google.com/group/naturalmath subscribe now to discuss future math culture with parents, researchers and techies http://www.phenixsolutions.com empowering our innovations On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM, simonfj <simo...@cols.com.au> wrote: > > Guys,, > > I'd like to invite you to take part in an experiment which might begin > to bridge the digital divide, or at least the divide between the old > telephone system and IP networks. The main thing I'd like to think we > could acheive, in the first instance, is coming up with a telephone > (conferencing) number which we could all use to talk to one another at > the cost of a local call. The aim is to build a global collaboration > network using tools which are already there. > http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/about.jsp > > We wil want to build this from the bottom up, and in Australia this is > the bottom. > > http://www.arcs.org.au/products-services/collaboration-services/video/evo/telephone-bridge-phone > You'll see (at the bottom of the page) that there are already some > 'telephone bridge numbers' for different countries. I'm hoping we > might be able to add a few more, depending on your locality. > > I'm pretty sure that this won't be too much of a leap for the people > in your institution which work with these kind of tools, You only need > to tell them that you'd like to tap in to an EVO meeting by dialing a > local telephone number. That's step 1. If we can get this far, and you > ask your techs to contact arcs and add your local number to the > international list, we can all get some idea of the power of WE. > (Phone Bridge doc is at the bottom of page) > > From there WE'd want to have a dedicated global 24/7 conference number > which I'd suggest would be 94533 (wikied), and, if I see the list > grow, I'll stay on caltech's case untli WE have it. That's step 2. > > There's a bit more work, and learning, to do for all of us in order to > take it to step 3, where we have a virtual room numbered 94533 in > which we can do all sorts of things. This sounds a bit convoluted I > know, but it gives us an opportunity to turn a few institutional heads > that are unaccustomed to building (industrial strength) solutions for > global communities. We have to start somewhere. > > regards, simonfj > > PS I'd also be interested to see if you have any problems registering > for ARCS 'FORUMS'. (andrew is the contact). > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
