Re: PEAR Meeting
| From: | Stig S. Bakken | Date: | Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:13:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PEAR Meeting | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:18, Jeroen Houben wrote:
> Bertrand Mansion wrote:
>
> ><smith@backendmedia.com> wrote :
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I started some discussion about this a while back.
> >>I would like to get together a PEAR meeting where we can discuss the
> >>latest proposals and the future direction of PEAR in general.
> >>
> >>I think that the PHP Con in Amsterdam will get together a fair amount of
> >>PEAR people. We also got a generous offer for a meeting room that could
> >>hold about 20 people IIRC that has good net connection (video
> >>conferencing would even be possible). This way people, that don't go to
> >>the PHP Con for various reasons but are willing to go to Amsterdam for
> >>this meeting, could also participate.
> >>
> >>So I would like to get some serious "hand raising" of people that would
> >>be there. To kick things off here is mine *waves his hand*. I will not
> >>be there for the PHP Con but I would drive to Amsterdam for a PEAR
> >>meeting.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I won't be able to go to Amsterdam but I've never done video-conferencing,
> >that would be interesting :)
> >Will you make one ? What are the requirements ?
> >
> >Bertrand Mansion
> >Mamasam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Hi,
>
> I was the person who offered a meeting room + vidcon facilities in
> Amsterdam. The idea was to have as many people as possible present in
> the same room. Videoconferencing gets messy if you let more than say 4
> people join. Not all people have proper vidcon equipment but will want
> some way to participate. I thought of the following:
>
> We could broascast (stream) the meeting and then people on the Internet
> can hear & see the people in the room.They can participate using chat
> software which I could project on a big screen in the meeting room. That
> could work and it doesn't require any special equipment or outrageous
> amounts of bandwith.
>
> What do think of this idea?
Could combine this with a phone conference to scale better, if there are
more than 2-3 parties interested in calling in.
- Stig