IRC tonight

[doctormo at gmail.com (Martin Owens)]

Fear not, I don't have a working laptop.

On 21/03/07, Tom Metro <blu at vl.com> wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> > Hmmm...someone mentioned a BLU IRC channel a while ago. That could be
> > used for question submission, with the speaker directly observing or
> > a volunteer relaying the questions. (Though given how many people
> > bring laptops to the meetings, I can see it now...half the room would
> > be chatting on IRC and the speaker would be largely ignored.  :-)  )
>
> While we haven't yet accomplished live simulcasts of meetings, I figured
> we could give the IRC aspect a try tonight. It may prove to be useful in
> some way for the people physically present at the meeting. Hopefully my
> prediction of an ignored speaker won't happen.
>
> #BLU on irc.freenode.net
>
> If you need an IRC client, Gaim[1] is one of several.
>
> 1. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> > The open source Gizmo Project provides free conference calling:
> > http://www.gizmoproject.com/conf-calling.html
> >
> > Participants can connect via any SIP VoIP client, or use a regular
> > phone (at the expense of a long distance call).
>
> Anyone with some free cell phone minutes and a bluetooth headset they
> can loan to the speaker care to try this out?
>
>   -Tom
>
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