Wayne, You're right. It doesn't have a GNU/linux client yet. If you know of any "complete solutions" that does, or might have in the next couple of years, I'd love to know. (please) N.B. The vucast functionality is important.
The talk about OS solutions go on. This recent cross-Atlantic get together is probably the closest we'll get to it for another few years. http://www.terena.org/activities/media/meeting4/programme.html (Matterhorn being the highest mountain to climb. Big Blue Button functionality being a while off.) I'm suggesting vivu as 1. it's (should be) free. (to a few global communities long term = to be negotiated) 2. It works as an extension of Skype (so it should be pretty intuitive to use). 3. The recordings won't require a user to download a player. (until html5 gets traction, and no player is required) 4. Aarnet have a relationship with them. In all of this kind of development, the front end isn't really that important. aarnet already have had talks abut using an "off the shelf & open" client, along with quite a few other NRENs; independently of course. They don't collaborate on one client (or backend) because none of their user communities (except the big boys like the astro-physics communities) are big enough, and don't talk to their National engineers as a global group. The main costs here are bandwidth usage, and that's a mess at the moment because NREN engineers spend most of their time talking to "their" National clients. So when WE talk across borders, the routing between networks is always "off net". http://www.infocellar.com/networks/Switched/onnet-vs-offnet.htm i.e. It costs money in both directions (and glitches are common). My only interest here is finding a solution which, if it's picked up and used regularly by a few global groups, will enable my mates at aarnet to talk to their global mates about reconfiguring their pipes. i.e. WE's inter-NREN usage and storage becomes "on net". The other consideration here is offering a "fixed" room. i.e. WE would have a virtual room/(streaming) channel, and its archive, that has a fixed position (a fixed url) in cyberspace (not necessarily at vivu.tv), which hopefully they would want to share between time zones and (at times) with other communities like P2P uni. It's a bit hard to follow things at the moment when WE et al spread everything around so many urls and tools. Of course, if, as you say "many WE users have Linux (as their client's operating system)", then I guess we can't even consider this approach. But it is an attempt to offer a stop gap for the next few years. And so long as it's free, (and i can come up with a business case for Vivu that keeps it that way) it's helps to get the NREN engineers to focus. -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
