[omaha] Meeting tonight

[Steve Young]

>
> i just answered my question about dimdim:
>
>

> As the Host of your Yugma meeting, you can make any attendee the Presenter
>>> at any time.
>>>
>>
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Steve Young <wereapwhatwesow at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you are still wanting to try it tonight, dimdim seems like an easy one
> to use if we have less than 10 participants.  The guests don't have to
> download any software.  It has whiteboard, desktop sharing, voice and more.
> I don't know if it allows guests to share their desktop, which I think would
> be helpful, especially if you have remote guest speakers...
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Steve Young <wereapwhatwesow at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > --
>>> > > Jeff Hinrichs
>>> > > Dundee Media & Technology, Inc
>>> > > jeffh at dundeemt.com
>>> > > 402.218.1473
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>>> >
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