[omaha] Meeting tonight

[Steve Young]

Most of the online meetings I have attended (never hosted any myself,
although I have done a lot of remote desktop work) were thru webex, which is
a pay service, but very nice.

I am not familiar with any of the services on the link you provided.

I took a look around and came up with a few free services for 10 to 20
users:
http://www.dimdim.com/index.html
http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/ this looks like an app you host
yourself
http://ostatic.com/blog/open-source-web-conferencing-apps-make-meetings-easieris
a blog post with some suggestions.
https://www.yugma.com/ this free version allows 20 participants
http://www.mikogo.com/
http://vyew.com/site/index3

I am not familiar with any of these, but I have some time today if you want
to test something out before meeting time.

steve

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jeff Hinrichs <jeffh at delasco.com> wrote:

> -Jeff
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Steve Young <wereapwhatwesow at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > A couple of options I am aware of: The subway at 19th and about Douglas
> has
> > a meeting room that they have at no charge.  Not sure about wifi.
> > The Scooters at 63rd and center has wifi, but I don't think they have a
> > seperate meeting room.
> > Bookstores and Panera's aren't bad if the crowd isn't too large.
> >
> > I have heard that for google voice conference calls it is 3 callers plus
> > the
> > host for a total of 4.
> >
> > Also, last month the guys at Lansky's said if we told them what dates we
> > normally meet on they would put it on the calendar, and then we would
> only
> > have to contact them for cancelations...  sorry for not letting you know
> > sooner!
> >
> > steve
> >
> No worries.  I would very much like to see us create a method for holding a
> virtual users group.  I believe that it would help in a number of ways.
>  Such as increased participation and the ability to get guest presenters.
>  The number of members who don't make it to meetings because of familial
> obligations/out of town work is about as large as those that can make it.
> Getting guest speakers  to one of our meetings without having to wait on  a
> solar eclipse like schedule for someone to come through Omaha would be a
> great thing.  Don't get me wrong, I love Omaha but the number of Python
> programmers here is dwarfed in galactic terms by those using Python not in
> Omaha.
>
> If we can get something cobbled together, I believe it will be a model that
> could be followed by others.  Tonight might just be the night to make a try
> for it.
>
> The GVoice limit is a pain.  Anyone ever used one of the free conference
> call services? i.e. http://www.freeconferencecall.com/index.asp
>
>
>
>
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <
> jeffh at dundeemt.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > I was unsuccessful in getting our normal meeting room at Lansky's
> > > tonight.  So I am mulling over trying to do an on-line meeting.  There
> > > are a number of on-line meeting venues but they all inevitably want $$
> > > for continued use.  So I am looking for ideas.  Currently I am
> > > thinking google voice/chat for audio, google docs/presentation for the
> > > slides and gobby for group code editing (there will be lots of that
> > > for my talk on testing.)
> > >
> > > I am looking for feedback, alternative options/venues.   Anyone know
> > > how many people you can get in a google voice session?
> > >
> > > -Jeff
> > >
> > >
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