X11R6.9/X11R7 release wranglers call 4 Nov 2005

[Egbert Eich]

James Cloos writes:
 > >>>>> "Egbert" == Egbert Eich <eich at suse.de> writes:
 > 
 > Egbert> as it is effectively limiting participation to those enjoying
 > Egbert> the anemnities of corporate support or those who are living in
 > Egbert> North America.
 > 
 > It should be possible to get to the 1-888 number via SIP or IAX2 for
 > those with voip clients and enough inet bandwidth.
 > 
 > fwd.pulver.com (FreeWorldDialup) can be used to make toll-free calls
 > to several countries, including the US.
 > 
 > sip:18884355674 at tf.voipmich.com should also work.
 > 
 > (The latter comes from a NAPTR lookup on 4.7.6.5.5.3.4.8.8.8.1.freenum.org.)
 > 

I've got an account at pulver.com - but for some reason this doesn't work
for me any more. Either the provider is blocking it or something else is
going on. I don't have the time to investigate right now. Just as I find
it extremely hard to allocate a slot at a specific time of day on a specific
day.
I can watch an email thread and chime in quite well - however it is cumbersome
for me to schedule in another conference between all the other conferences
and appointments I already have to deal with.
Furthermore I cannot use SIP from my mobile phone nor can I use other
toll-free accesses to Sprint etc. Therefore these calls require me to be 
near a land line phone.
As others may face similar problems I feel that conf calls for release
issues can effectively exclude participants.
I don't want to say we should never have them. However they should be limited
to situations where the matter really requires them.

Egbert.