--- Dabreegster IRCUser <dabreegster at gmail.com> wrote: > The idea of providing a live ASCII-art stream could > work. Talking at > the same time would be ideal, but the only > connection available to me > is dialup. > > I doubt any sort of realtime voice chat > would be an option > for me.
I don't think two-way chat would be ideal. I attend lots of conference calls as part of my job and I can verify that it can lead to very confusing conversations when you have too many people speaking at once. I think it would work much better to have one-way voice chat, or "broadcast", to the participants. Questions for the presenter can be handled via IRC. This is how most Internet based presentations for a large audience is handled. I can remember using voice chat over dial-up, way back in the day. Quality wasn't great, but it worked. The only other traffic would be text data through a ssh channel. Your voice traffic could go to a central server that would one-way broadcast to the participants. Not having to handle two-way voice traffic would help with your bandwidth. I'm just not sure of the best tools/methods to do this. An idea just occurred to me: is there a free/very-cheap voice conferencing service out there? Dabreegster, do you have a cell phone? If the answer is yes to both, then that would solve the problem. > In addition, I lack a working microphone. That can easily be rectified. I'm sure I have a PC somewhere in my box of junk. If not, I'll bet someone else on the mailing list has one they are willing to give to you. > The discussion bit > of the meeting could be hosted in the IRC channel, Sure, if voice chat is not an option. In fact, if the audience was large, it would probably work best to have questions posted via the IRC channel, so the presenter's voice wouldn't be interrupted. > and I could > demonstrate things through screen at the same time. > Is this OK with > everybody? Are there better ideas? We also need is a server where people could connect to for the presentation. I was thinking of using some Linux Live CD distro with just an ssh server running to minimize the security risks. Then, we would just need a list of participants and their email addresses to send them their username/passwords and event information. We could also use the #brlug IRC channel for questions and chat during the presentation. John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
