Agreed.  We'll have to use skype until there is a foss option that can 
do the job.   Skype's unlimited world-wide free voice conference calls 
are hard to resist.   I don't think it will be long before there will be 
a foss competitor.

Robin


Mawaki Chango wrote:

>Folks,
>
>I'm very friendly with o.s. values, but if in the time being
>there is nothing o.s. out there allowing us to work in proper
>conditions, let's go for skype (and of course anyone who wants
>to abstain is free to do so.) Personnally, I can't be a
>fundamentalist of any board - sorry, but that's just my opinion.
>
>Mawaki
>
>
>--- "Horacio T. Cadiz" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>karen banks wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>hi robin
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Are there any other suggestions for FOSS technical
>>>>        
>>>>
>>solutions that 
>>    
>>
>>>>could give us an unlimited number of free world-wide voice
>>>>        
>>>>
>>calls like 
>>    
>>
>>>>Skype does?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>   If everyone has access to a SIP phone, then we should all
>>be able to connect
>>to an Asterisk box using the Conference Call feature of
>>Asterisk.  We can run it
>>on my Asterisk box but its bandwidth is limited to 2mbps. I've
>>tried it with
>>three people in a conference without problems.
>>
>>  If someone else has a box with higher bandwidth, volunteer
>>now! How many people
>>do we expect?
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Bombim Cadiz
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