Re: [chairs] Conference call infrastructure

+5

At 9:07 AM -0600 1/13/06, Elysa Jones wrote:
>+4!!!
>
>At 04:51 AM 1/13/2006, Juan Carlos Cruellas wrote:
>>+3
>>Nick Pope wrote:
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>>>+2
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Miko Matsumura [mailto:]
>>>>Sent: 12 January 2006 22:45
>>>>To: Paul Fremantle; James Bryce Clark; 
>>>>Subject: RE: [chairs] Conference call infrastructure
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>+1
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Paul Fremantle [mailto:] Sent: Thursday, 
>>>>January 12, 2006 2:39 PM
>>>>To: James Bryce Clark; 
>>>>Subject: [chairs] Conference call infrastructure
>>>>
>>>>There was a previous suggestion that OASIS might sponsor or provide a
>>>>conference call facility for TC working groups.
>>>>
>>>>At that time someone suggested using the freeconference.com facility.
>>>>
>>>>Our TC has been using that for the last two months, but it seems like
>>>>we, like the compulsive gambler who has the bad luck to win first time,
>>>>were unlucky enough to get a more favourable impression of the facility
>>>>than was warranted. In other words - it worked the first time, but has
>>>>been pretty useless since. It may be that freeconference works very well
>>>>for smaller TCs, but we have an average of 40-50 participants weekly and
>>>>this week our call was virtually inaudible due to echo on the line. A
>>>>number of participants dialled out and in again in an attempt to fix it
>>>>without luck. I use freeconference for smaller calls and it is pretty
>>>>good, but it seems like it can't deal with the large numbers we have.
>>>>
>>>>Our TC has therefore asked to raise the issue with OASIS once again -
>>>>can OASIS please provide a teleconference infrastructure or sponsorship
>>>>which will support this number of callers?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Paul
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Paul Fremantle
>>>>VP/Technology, WSO2 and OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair
>>>>
>>>>http://bloglines.com/blog/paulfremantle
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com


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