[pm-h] Perl Mongers meeting times

Todd Rinaldo toddr at null.net
Sun Jul 5 14:22:59 PDT 2009


On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Mike Flannigan<mikeflan at att.net> wrote:
>
> G. Wade Johnson wrote:
>>
>> It looks like WebEx is $59 per month, with no support for Linux.
>>
>> I remember trying to use WebEx on Windows at a previous employer
>> without much success. I don't know how it is now.
>>
>> As far as the cost is concerned, Wayne made the suggestion that people
>> might be willing to pay a "club fee" to help facilitate this. The
>> problem is that the only "organization" we have is Perl Mongers.
>> Houston.pm is not a "legal entity". As I've seen recently with the SVG
>> Open conference, becoming a "legal entity" is complicated and
>> potentially expensive.
>>
>> If we can come up with a free solution (or low-cost that people can
>> make use of outside our meetings), I think that would be a better idea.
>>
>> One of the problems at the moment seems to be that most of the
>> solutions I've seen are Windows-only. Many people use other OSes, and
>> that has been reflected so far in the attendance.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with any meeting or screen sharing
>> software that is really cross platform?
>>
>> G. Wade
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
> I was going to try Ekiga (Was GnomeMeeting) an
> hour ago, but they quickly confused me with
> 3 different file choices that I didn't know which
> one to get (I'm on Windows).  Maybe I am
> supposed to get Microsoft NetMeeting - I'm
> not sure.
>
> I have another club I want to do this for.  Does
> anybody have a recommendation on what video
> camera to get to do these teleconferences? This other club has a ton of
> money and maybe I
> can talk them into it.  I sure would like to hear the
> experience of others doing this.  What do I need
> to output the camera data to the internet?
>
> I feel like I'm back in the Dark Ages.  I can't
> believe this is so rarely done.
>
>
> Mike
>

I think Wade or myself should send out to the pm group owners. Maybe
someone has an in or maybe someone would pay a grant to start
publishing meetings to a central location. Wouldn't be a bad idea...


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