[ubuntu-us-ma] Video Conference of Meeting

[Daniel Hollocher]

Hey guys,
I got a pretty good kick out of looking into FM.  This blog entry had me
fooled!
http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=flashmeeting-the-youtube-of-videoconferencing
It's a blog supposedly devoted to FLOSS (or FOSS).  They blog about it.  So,
its gota have something to do with libre software, right?  Nope, FM is
closed source!  Muahahaha, I got a kick out of that!

Ok, gota go.  This link looks cool:
http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/gnash/
Looks like that no, gnash won't support any option we choose, but it also
looks like there are some other options besides dimdim: red5 and cygnal.

Dan

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Enchanted Visions <
enchantedvisionsband at yahoo.com> wrote:

> well I think this is a great idea especially for someone like me who
> usually has to work or has had a hard time traveling into boston for
> meetings. The one thing I would say is that this should be tested to make
> sure that it works with Gnash. That way we can insure that we are still
> supporting Free Software with our meetings and not excluding anyone.
>
> Mike C.
> Drascus321
>
> --- On *Mon, 2/16/09, Algot Runeman <algot.runeman at verizon.net>* wrote:
>
> From: Algot Runeman <algot.runeman at verizon.net>
> Subject: [ubuntu-us-ma] Video Conference of Meeting
> To: "Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team" <
> ubuntu-us-ma at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 4:40 PM
>
>
> At the January meeting, there was
>  discussion of using a video conference
> system to make the meetings more interactive for the remote participants.
> Skype was mentioned, but not with much excitement.
>
> While checking the Open Source Schools mention of an upcoming meeting in
> London, I read that there was going to be "Flashmeeting" access for
> those who could not attend.
>
> The base requirements for use appear to be Flash Player plugin for your
> browser, video camera(s), a microphone (recommended over using the one
> built into the video camera. If you check the recorded FM session
> mentioned at the end of this email, you can hear what sounds like the
> problem of using a computer-based mike.
>
> Flashmeeting (maybe it has been renamed just FM) sounds promising, but
> may not be as easy to deploy as we might like.
>
> It is currently a research project in the UK, and there are several open
> access servers for people registered in one of several
>  UK-based
> education projects. The team might need to join somehow to get an
> account on one of the servers.
>
> The Flashmeeting site is: http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/home.html
>
> The most promising point of access may be the OpenUniversity
> http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?name=FM
>
> Here's one blog post about FM.
> http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=flashmeeting-the-youtube-of-videoconferencing
>
>
> You might be able to better see and judge the tool by looking at this
> recording of a session using FM.
> http://fm.ea-tel.eu/fm/fmmp.php?pwd=13e7e0-12360
> Watching the moving line at the bottom indicates when each participant
> is "taking over". The originator is the leader of the discussion and
> has
> the tools to select who will next speak.
>
> I don't know if MIT might have a contact somewhere to get access to the
> software so we might not need access to the connections across the
> "pond" to the
>  servers in the UK.
>
> --Algot
>
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