Wineconf update, RFC re remote participation

[Jeremy White]

Hi folks,

Okay, I've updated the Wineconf page:
  http://www.winehq.org/wineconf/

One thing I would like to do is to stream audio
from the conference out to the web and also work very hard
to include folks from #winehq (or maybe #wineconf) 
in some of the sessions.

The sessions I thought made particular sense were
the ones around Wine 1.0 as well as on OLE and Games.

Does anyone recall being remote to the last Wineconf?  
Did it work at all?  Is there anything we could/should do to 
enable others to join us, if only virtually?
(Please feel free to tell me that it didn't work worth beans
and we should just drop it, btw <g>).

Other thoughts or comments?

Thanks,

Jer

[Eric Pouech]

> Does anyone recall being remote to the last Wineconf?

Yes I was (and I'll be remote again this year)
Video is of course better than audio (and you can also store it for 
later reuse)
> Did it work at all?

Yes, as a feed back for presentation
> Is there anything we could/should do to 
> enable others to join us, if only virtually?
> (Please feel free to tell me that it didn't work worth beans
> and we should just drop it, btw <g>).

One of the things which improved was to have a couple of folks present 
chatting on IRC at the same time (even, if it was not satisfactory to 
break in and ask questions)
One of the good things could be to have a round of IRC questions after a 
presentation
> Other thoughts or comments?

It will be much more harder for hacking sessions of course.

A+

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Eric Pouech wrote:
> One of the things which improved was to have a couple of folks present 
> chatting on IRC at the same time (even, if it was not satisfactory to 
> break in and ask questions)

Telephone conversations are quite cheap nowadays (from Europe, they
cost are <$3/h!), what about a big conference call. You can break in,
ask questions, etc... That will work quite nicely with any sort of
telecast from the conference, me thinks.

[Jeremy White]

> Telephone conversations are quite cheap nowadays (from Europe, they
> cost are <$3/h!), what about a big conference call. You can break in,
> ask questions, etc... That will work quite nicely with any sort of
> telecast from the conference, me thinks.

That's an interesting idea; it's conceivable that we could arrange
such a service for a fairly limited number of callers,
presuming those callers were willing to foot the bill for the call.

I'm curious how many folks would really want to do that, though.
Could I get a private show from folks that would want to do that?

Thanks,

Jer

p.s.  If someone out there is thinking:  of course you could do that,
if would be trivial if you just did 'X', please feel free to share X
with me.  Otherwise, we'll have to investigate the open pbx project
and the possibility of getting some Quicknet cards...

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On January 7, 2004 08:46 pm, Jeremy White wrote:
> p.s.  If someone out there is thinking:  of course you could do that,
> if would be trivial if you just did 'X', please feel free to share X
> with me.  Otherwise, we'll have to investigate the open pbx project
> and the possibility of getting some Quicknet cards...

I remember getting all sorts of spam about very cheap conference calling.
It can't be that expensive, we just set up a US number, the caller
pays the long distance charges (which are very small right now)...

[Jeremy White]

> I remember getting all sorts of spam about very cheap conference calling.
> It can't be that expensive, we just set up a US number, the caller
> pays the long distance charges (which are very small right now)...

Well, we've had a tentative offer from someone to use their conference
services; I'll see if that pans out.

However, conference calling services (one of which we use
regularly) are ostensibly 'cheap', but their prices scale
by the multiple of number of connections and length of time.

48 hours times many callers would shatter my budget.

Now, if you *own* the conference box (which is easy to do; you
can buy 'em for a few K or build them easily), then you only have
fixed costs, and can afford something like this easily.  I
believe that's the case in the service I've been offered.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Eric Pouech]

Dimitrie O. Paun a écrit :
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Eric Pouech wrote:
> > One of the things which improved was to have a couple of folks present 
> > chatting on IRC at the same time (even, if it was not satisfactory to 
> > break in and ask questions)
>
> Telephone conversations are quite cheap nowadays (from Europe, they
> cost are <$3/h!), what about a big conference call. You can break in,
> ask questions, etc... That will work quite nicely with any sort of
> telecast from the conference, me thinks.

Of course audio conf would be great. It this doesn't work out, telecast 
of the conf + someone watching an IRC channel would be ok.
A+