Re: [chairs] Cost of conference bridge?

[Kelvin Lawrence <klawrenc@us.ibm.com>]

I am not sure what they budget for the
bridge hardware/software but note that they do not offer free (888, 877
etc) numbers, rather a 617 number (Boston area). So they are providing
the bridge but not paying for all the attendees calls. Also, I believe
they are using VOIP in some cases now as well. The other thing they offer
of course is the on-call robot that can do all sorts of interesting things
but I, for one, am not asking for OASIS to get that sophisticated. 

Cheers
Kelvin

"David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>

01/13/2006 10:19 AM

To	Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
cc	chairs@lists.oasis-open.org, Elysa Jones <ejones@warningsystems.com>, Juan Carlos Cruellas <cruellas@ac.upc.edu>, Nick Pope <pope@secstan.com>
Subject	[chairs] Cost of conference bridge?

Does anyone know how much the W3C budgets for their conference
bridge each year?
 
I've never investigated the market rate for such things.
 
Or can we all just run to a VOIP server at OASIS ??!!!
 
DW


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [chairs] Conference call infrastructure
From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
Date: Fri, January 13, 2006 10:45 am
To: Elysa Jones <ejones@warningsystems.com>, Juan Carlos Cruellas
<cruellas@ac.upc.edu>, Nick Pope <pope@secstan.com>
Cc: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org

+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:
>>
>>>+2
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Miko Matsumura [mailto:mmatsumura@infravio.com]
>>>>Sent: 12 January 2006 22:45
>>>>To: Paul Fremantle; James Bryce Clark; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
>>>>Subject: RE: [chairs] Conference call infrastructure
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>+1
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Paul Fremantle [mailto:paul@wso2.com] Sent: Thursday,
>>>>January 12, 2006 2:39 PM
>>>>To: James Bryce Clark; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org
>>>>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
>>>>paul@wso2.com
>>>>
>>>>"Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com


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