OsmoDevCon / SIP / Teleconference

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David A. Burgess dburgess at jcis.net
Tue Feb 21 01:05:25 UTC 2012


Harald -

I largely agree, and apologize if my request was misunderstood or expanded beyond its original intent.

Also, that is a good point about Skype.

-- David


On Feb 20, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Harald Welte wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> I really wanted OsmoDevCon to be an even from Osmocom (+related)
> develoeprs for such developers, with the idea of working together
> intensely and sharing some experiences face-to-face.
> 
> I also understand not everyone is able to attend, for scheduling, travel
> or simply because they didn't realize about the event in time.
> 
> I think broadcasting at least some the presentations (not general
> discussions) via SIP or any other audio streaming method might be ok,
> but I would make that dependent on the individual speaker.  For
> discussions or other non-presentations, I don't think it's a good idea.
> Talking privately in a room full of people is one thing, talking while
> it is publicly streamed and possibly recorded an entirely different
> thing.
> 
> Having remote presenters is also not what I had in mind.  We might
> consider that if one of the scheduled speakers is unable to attend, but
> not as a planned scenario for events that are not even scheduled.
> 
> Furthermore, I'm not a big fan of active participation by remote parties
> either, I fear it has a huge potential to delay the event.
> 
> Now there might be occasional exceptions, i.e. somebody not present at
> the event but still actively involved in one particular subject that we
> want to discuss.  In that case having a teleconference via SIP or other
> method may be appropriate for that given topic / person.
> 
> If I understood correctly, Sylvain and Peter have suggested to take care
> of it from the technical/infrastructure side.  I appreciate that and we
> may use it where apropriate (see above).
> 
> btw: I strongly discourage the use of skype in the context of Osmocom by
> all means!  We're working very hard to create Free Software
> implementations of open-specified communications protocols.  Let's not
> make the world more complicated by using (and thus suggesting it was
> appropriate to use) completely proprietary communications systems.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Harald
> -- 
> - Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>           http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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