Hi Michael<br><br>Great Idea! And Swiss German works well! Count me in!<br><br>Thanx<br>Mala<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Michael Vorburger <<a href="mailto:mike@vorburger.ch" target="_blank">mike@vorburger.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hallo zusammen,<br>
<br>
How about we organize a conference call for a mutual update &<br>
discussion? Interested?<br>
<br>
I was at first hesitant to put the idea on this list, because if even<br>
only 50% of the current approx. 36 subscribers (!) to this list<br>
participate in such a call, it's probably going to be chaotic... but<br>
then I thought in the interest of openness, it should be announced<br>
here. I'm assuming (??) that only a much smaller core group will<br>
actually really call in to participate, and we'd send an update to all<br>
list subscribers of the call afterwards. Let me try like this, I<br>
realize it's may more difficult than I think, but hey, we'll know<br>
better after we tried! ;-) So:<br>
<br>
* Suggested Date & Time & Duration: Next Wednesday March 26th, 19<br>
o'clock (Swiss time, doh!), max. 1h. If you can not make that and very<br>
strongly really would love to be in the call, please suggest an<br>
alternate Date & Time by responding to this email, to the mailing<br>
list.<br>
<br>
* Discussion can be held in Swiss German unless there are any<br>
non-German participants in the call (to be determined at the start of<br>
call by simply asking around)<br>
<br>
* Looking for a volunteer who is willing to play "scribe" and take<br>
notes and send a summary to the list after the call<br>
* Schlage Michele als "Moderator" vor.. isch gued? Scribe not<br>
necessarily same as moderator, probably better not. Who's volunteering<br>
as scribe??<br>
<br>
* Themenvorschläge meinerseits, please feel free to add more<br>
suggestions when responding (see below): 1) Gegenseitiges Updaten, 2)<br>
OLPC.ch goals "refinement", 3) Next specific Steps, Priorities?<br>
<br>
* Infrastructure, how to: Hm... ;-) Let me suggest a Skype "public<br>
chat". I have never actually tried this, but it seems pretty<br>
straightforward - looks like just clicking on e.g.<br>
<a href="http://ui.skype.com/ui/0/3.0.0.198/en/publicchats-join?skypename=mike_vorburger&topic=OLPC.ch&blob=5KNudxEsbQp0p5UOeb7cFm0iUzawWJ15ar4SvSPibDtpegrm275jclai_dfNr4hmQ9HPPAL5JtXpng" target="_blank">http://ui.skype.com/ui/0/3.0.0.198/en/publicchats-join?skypename=mike_vorburger&topic=OLPC.ch&blob=5KNudxEsbQp0p5UOeb7cFm0iUzawWJ15ar4SvSPibDtpegrm275jclai_dfNr4hmQ9HPPAL5JtXpng</a><br>
on the agreed date and time (does this link stay valid until then?)<br>
should get us together. -- Now, I realize there may be people who will<br>
not like Skype... can I suggest: People who will not be able to be in<br>
the call and just want to comment in general about Skype or FOSS etc.,<br>
please abstain; sorry & thanks. People who genuinely want to be in the<br>
call and honestly have a problem with Skype (including being<br>
completely against installing the Linux version that Skype offers,<br>
even just for this call?), please speak up by responding to this<br>
email. If you know of an equally easy alternative, please suggest it.<br>
We will however not "experiment" with technology, within the scope of<br>
a conf. call, you'll know what I mean. A possible fallback could be a<br>
traditional POTS (normal phone) conference call number. If anybody<br>
raises concerns against Skype and can not propose a viable simple<br>
alternative, I volunteer to look into setting up such a number (via my<br>
day job office probably). The number of possible attendees may be more<br>
limited than with Skype in that case.<br>
<br>
Please respond to this email to the list (not just to me; just do a<br>
Reply which should automatically go to the list) with a brief "I'll<br>
probably participate" so that we get a feeling for the number of<br>
participants (and language).<br>
<br>
Please keep your email open on the agreed date and time, just in case<br>
we need to send a new link or number or something.<br>
<br>
I'm curious if and how this will work out...<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Michael<br>
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