There will be more than one option to connect. I don't think we'll do video unless others would like that feature. Calling in would be one option, however to avoid any potential long distance charges, and to make it more gopher-like, I will be putting up a gopher mole, which would dial any number you give it, and connect it into the conference. Dial in will be an option for those interested of course. For video, it may be more difficult to get everybody on board, depending on the platform we choose to go with for a video conference. I'd rather keep the conference along the lines with Gopher ideals, simplicity is best. And also keep the access point into the conference itself accessible to as many participants as possible regardless of bandwidth. Video is known to use a large amount of bandwidth and some users, mainly those in rural areas pay a surplus for high bandwidth. Access points being developed by me currently: * Gopher mole to dial any number in North America. * A dial in number, which will be long distance to most. * A WebRTC client which lives in gopherspace, should be good enough for those who only want to listen in, microphone is supported though. * A native Android app, with a simple interface to connect in over a VoIP connection. WebRTC is known to work through OverbiteFF, and for those who want to connect over HTTP, will work in Chrome(both desktop and mobile). So the conference should be available in many ways, giving broad accessibility. Of course the entire conference will be recorded from beginning to end, and the audio file will be available shortly after via Gopherspace for your downloading pleasure. The length of the conference is going to depend on how many presenters sign up. If anyone would like to set an overall time limit, we can plan the conference outline accordingly. Sent from my BlackBerry Priv - the most secure mobile device - via the TELUS Network
When are we looking to have this happen? And by "teleconference" do we mean we'll dial in, video conference in, etc? cheers James James Mills / prologic E: prologic@shortcircuit.net.au On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin@veroneau.net> wrote: I recently sent a message to Jason Scott, the maintainer of textiles.Com to lobby him into also partaking in GopherCon 2016. I am really hoping he would agree as he would have lots of history and other interesting gopher tidbits to contribute in a talk. I also believe he ran a gopher version of textiles.Com in recent years as well. I know there's an archive of textiles.Com in gopherspace somewhere as well. | ||
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