[OLPC.ch] Konferenzcall mal?

[Mala Mukherjee]

Hi Michael

Great Idea! And Swiss German works well! Count me in!

Thanx
Mala

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Michael Vorburger <mike at vorburger.ch>
wrote:

> Hallo zusammen,
>
> How about we organize a conference call for a mutual update &
> discussion? Interested?
>
> I was at first hesitant to put the idea on this list, because if even
> only 50% of the current approx. 36 subscribers (!) to this list
> participate in such a call, it's probably going to be chaotic... but
> then I thought in the interest of openness, it should be announced
> here. I'm assuming (??) that only a much smaller core group will
> actually really call in to participate, and we'd send an update to all
> list subscribers of the call afterwards. Let me try like this, I
> realize it's may more difficult than I think, but hey, we'll know
> better after we tried! ;-) So:
>
> * Suggested Date & Time & Duration: Next Wednesday March 26th, 19
> o'clock (Swiss time, doh!), max. 1h. If you can not make that and very
> strongly really would love to be in the call, please suggest an
> alternate Date & Time by responding to this email, to the mailing
> list.
>
> * Discussion can be held in Swiss German unless there are any
> non-German participants in the call (to be determined at the start of
> call by simply asking around)
>
> * Looking for a volunteer who is willing to play "scribe" and take
> notes and send a summary to the list after the call
> * Schlage Michele als "Moderator" vor.. isch gued? Scribe not
> necessarily same as moderator, probably better not. Who's volunteering
> as scribe??
>
> * Themenvorschläge meinerseits, please feel free to add more
> suggestions when responding (see below): 1) Gegenseitiges Updaten, 2)
> OLPC.ch goals "refinement", 3) Next specific Steps, Priorities?
>
> * Infrastructure, how to: Hm... ;-) Let me suggest a Skype "public
> chat". I have never actually tried this, but it seems pretty
> straightforward - looks like just clicking on e.g.
>
> http://ui.skype.com/ui/0/3.0.0.198/en/publicchats-join?skypename=mike_vorburger&topic=OLPC.ch&blob=5KNudxEsbQp0p5UOeb7cFm0iUzawWJ15ar4SvSPibDtpegrm275jclai_dfNr4hmQ9HPPAL5JtXpng
> on the agreed date and time (does this link stay valid until then?)
> should get us together. -- Now, I realize there may be people who will
> not like Skype... can I suggest: People who will not be able to be in
> the call and just want to comment in general about Skype or FOSS etc.,
> please abstain; sorry & thanks. People who genuinely want to be in the
> call and honestly have a problem with Skype (including being
> completely against installing the Linux version that Skype offers,
> even just for this call?), please speak up by responding to this
> email. If you know of an equally easy alternative, please suggest it.
> We will however not "experiment" with technology, within the scope of
> a conf. call, you'll know what I mean. A possible fallback could be a
> traditional POTS (normal phone) conference call number. If anybody
> raises concerns against Skype and can not propose a viable simple
> alternative, I volunteer to look into setting up such a number (via my
> day job office probably). The number of possible attendees may be more
> limited than with Skype in that case.
>
> Please respond to this email to the list (not just to me; just do a
> Reply which should automatically go to the list) with a brief "I'll
> probably participate" so that we get a feeling for the number of
> participants (and language).
>
> Please keep your email open on the agreed date and time, just in case
> we need to send a new link or number or something.
>
> I'm curious if and how this will work out...
>
> Regards,
> Michael
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