X11R6.9/X11R7 release wranglers call 4 Nov 2005

[Egbert Eich]

Keith Packard writes:
 > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 20:52 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
 > > IIRC, Keithp and Carl Worth set up Asterisk on fd.o; we could conference
 > > via VOIP there.  I'll check with them.  I know Keith's been playing with
 > > kphone with success as well.
 > 
 > We haven't configured asterisk yet, so we'd probably need a volunteer to
 > figure out how to make that work. I'd like to see us move to a purely
 > VOIP world for teleconferences, and also run IRC in parallel -- that
 > makes it far easier to exchange written information like URLs or email
 > addresses while on the phone.
 > 
 > We might also be able to borrow cworth's existing asterisk server (at
 > theworths.org) to give this a try; he's got a teleconference number you
 > can dial into there. I use kphone and a headset for this experience;
 > kphone doesn't (yet) have any echo cancellation so you can't use a
 > speaker-phone setup.
 > 

Yes, kphone is pretty grim if you don't have your volumes adjusted just
right and don't have a headset. Even then latencies will make a conference
rather cumbersome. 
The one with the lowest latency wins.

Cheers,
	Egbert.