[OSGeo-Discuss] Webinars on OS geo for local governments, schools and nonprofits?

[Daniel Ames]

How about a combination of something like open meetings for desktop
sharing with Google Voice Chat or Yahoo Chat for the voice? Yes, do
keep me in the loop Charlie. I'd be happy to give a webinar and if
this goes well we could evlove it into a course for seminar credit
here at ISU. - Dan

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Dan Putler <dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca> wrote:
> It is always good not to paste the URL twice, so a second shot at
> Openmeetings: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
>
> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 14:09 -0800, Dan Putler wrote:
>> Hi Charlie,
>>
>> Something to look at is Openmeetings:
>> http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
>>
>> I haven't installed it, but have used their demo site. It seems fairly
>> nice. I wanted to allow for screen sharing, and it does that well. Voice
>> volume was a bit of a problem on Linux, but not on Windows, and this may
>> be fixed at this point. I haven't tried video on it at this point.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 16:56 -0500, Charlie Schweik wrote:
>> > Hi Dan,
>> >
>> > Daniel Ames wrote:
>> > > Webinars are a great idea but need someone to host the webinar
>> > > software... any thoughts on how to do that? We could potentially help
>> > > out here at ISU with the desktop sharing side of things, but the
>> > > problem is the audio... - Dan
>> > >
>> > Good question, Dan! Webinar technology is not something I know that much
>> > about. But I imagine it is solvable (or is that naiive?)
>> > If my assumption is correct, let's see if we can get a list of a few
>> > webinar topics and people willing to present them, and then if that
>> > looks promising we can turn to this question.
>> >
>> > Can I put you down as a possible person to keep in the loop Dan?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Charlie
>> >
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