On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 09:33 -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: > On 2/12/08, Jon Stanley <jonstanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2008 9:42 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > After writing the message last night I dug a bit more into the details > > > of hooking up Asterisk and Flumotion and I definitely think that it'll > > > be possible. I think that combining Asterisk and Flumotion give us the > > > best of both worlds - use Asterisk to bring together the board members > > > > This sort of eliminates the possibility of a "town hall" type meeting > > though (which I thought was the whole point), where there's > > interaction between the Board and the community > > > > Unless questions are accepted via IRC, for instance....but you still > > lose the verbal interaction. May or may not be a big deal. > > Having tens or hundreds of people in an Asterisk conference call would > not be feasible I think. The management interface for the > conferencing isn't great so it'd be difficult to moderate who has the > floor, etc. I'd have to look at the code to be sure, but I'm not sure > if the mixing code optimizes out silent frames, and getting various > SIP clients to stop transmitting frame is problematic because many NAT > implementations need the two-way RTP flow to keep the ports open - > Asterisk has RTP timeouts as well. > > If some sort of verbal interaction was desired I think that you'd need > to conduct the meeting more like I've seen various school board and > city council meetings conducted. All members of the board would be > connected via a SIP client and would have full-duplex audio. Members > of the general public would be able to listen in on the audio > streaming site. If someone had something to present or a question to > ask would need to request the floor, probably though a IRC channel. > Once granted permission by the chair of the meeting, you'd be sent a > private SIP URL to connect to which would give you access to the > conference call. Once your turn at the "microphone" was over the SIP > URL would be disabled. > > Yes, this does limit somewhat a more free-flowing discussion, but it > also keeps chaos at bay. CC:ing f-a-b since this relates to its readers as well. This sounds like a workable solution if we want call-in questions -- do we have the technical bits to support it? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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