[Grassroots-l] VideoChat is working now - hooray!

[Sameer Verma]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Pia Waugh <greebo at pipka.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We now have Videochat v9 which works. This is a great thing that will help
> children connect, and in particular help with remote support for children.
> It could assist with eHealth, remote education, speech therapy and any
> number of useful functions.
>
> Anyway, it also needs more hacking, so anyone interested in helping should
> have a play and get involved. Currently it only does basic video
> conferencing between 2 laptops but the vision (as it states on the webpage)
> is for whiteboard functionality and more.
>
> Anyway, thought there would probably be a few of you for whom this would be
> useful :)
>
> Download and information:
>
>  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat
>
> Cheers,
> Pia
>
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Hi Pia,

Does this still require a jabber server, or will it work over the mesh?

cheers,
Sameer
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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
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