Live collaboration at Desktop Help Summit

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 15:04:57 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:22:09PM -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 19:17 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > Shaun,
> > 
> > Here's a list of infrastructure resources to help with live
> > collaboration:
> > 
> > * IRC Freenode #desktop-help -- doesn't seem like there's anything
> >   more needed here, you're an auto-op and the channel is all ready
> >   with zodbot waiting for you to use to log proceedings.
> > 
> > * Fedora Talk -- we have a local dial-in available in Chicago so any
> >   regular phone can be used with our conference rooms.  You can record
> >   if needed, although you'll want to let us know ahead of time so we
> >   can make sure instructions are clear and everything's working.
> > 
> >   http://talk.fedoraproject.org
> > 
> > * You had mentioned that you were going to check phone and projector
> >   availability.  Any word on that?
> > 
> > Let us know on the list if there's anything else we can do to help
> > make the meeting a successful collaboration.
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> It looks like the room we're in doesn't even have a phone
> connection, although Kevin is double-checking that for me.
> I think somebody had mentioned that Fedora team members can
> call in using VoIP software.  If I got a decent USB confernce
> phone or something, could a Fedoran connect the event to the
> phone bridge on their laptop?

Hi Shaun,

There are a few ways you can go.  Going from low tech to high:

* Simply dial-in to a Fedora Talk conference room using a cell phone's
  speakerphone.  A little harder to hear usually, but requires zero
  futzing around with tech.

* I can probably provide a desk-type VoIP handset for John McDonough
  to bring along.  It's not too big to travel; I know many people that
  do so regularly (with more than one for that matter).  Getting these
  phones to work is usually simple as long as you can get SIP & RTP
  traffic back and forth.

* Use a softphone like Ekiga or Empathy, with a speaker/mic type
  connection that will work for the room (I assume this is what you're
  talking about with the USB conference phone thingie?).

In all these cases, no special access is required to connect to a
conference room.

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