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Subject: Re: [dita-help] Re: OASIS WebEx-type account
Chet, Scott, Kris, et al;
As a lurker on this SC list, I'm probably not 'entitled' to add comments. But as the chair of a peer SC, I will strongly second Scott's sentiments below. Since the inception of the Semiconductor Information Design
Subcommittee, I've used my company's screen-sharing platform (Live Meeting) to host all of our teleconferences. While the cost to Freescale is most likely rather minimal, I've always felt that this arrangement was just slightly out of balance, and I would
strongly advocate that a portion of each member-company's fees be used to provide a collaboration service under the oasis-open.org domain.
BTW, one feature for which I'd also strongly advocate: recording/replay archives. In lieu of having a Secretary for our SC, I've relied on the Live
Meeting recordings to act as the public record of our discussions. I suspect this would not be an acceptable legal record for TCs, but for SCs (where there is no official voting capacity) it seems to be a viable mechanism.
Respectfully,
Chair, OASIS DITA TC Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee (SIDSC)
Applications Engineer, Staff Principal
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From: Scott Prentice <sp10@leximation.com>
Organization: Leximation, Inc. Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:39:43 -0800 To: Chet Ensign <chet.ensign@oasis-open.org> Cc: <dita-help@lists.oasis-open.org> Subject: Re: [dita-help] Re: OASIS WebEx-type account Hi Chet...
I've also used multiple combinations of "free" services to organize meetings like this, but you often end up spending the first 15 minutes getting everything set up and working properly. Once everyone has figured it out it goes a bit smoother, but any time there are new people or changes, it's a real hassle. Not to mention that the "free" is not really free since people typically have to call in to a single number in the US, which just pushes the toll charge on each caller (we've got members in Australia, India, and Europe). Yes, you can use Skype to call into the number, which reduces the cost, but increases the layers of technology that can fail or distract from the focus of the meeting. It seems that OASIS could buy a few GoToMeeting licenses and let groups sign up for time slots .. might just need two licenses to handle everyone (I don't know the frequency of overlap, so this might not be accurate). Also, I'm assuming that most TCs do use some screen sharing app and not just audio (where a "free conference call" service may be a more reasonable option). If you split this cost up over the number of TCs, the cost is likely to be quite minimal. It just doesn't seem right that TC members would need to "beg" for a slice of a corporate or personal license from another member. OASIS is a professional organization and seems like it should be providing the tools for its members to do their jobs as efficiently as possible. Has this been discussed before? I can't imagine that I'm the first person to bring it up. Thanks, ...scott On 2/27/12 7:02 AM, Chet Ensign wrote: Hi Kris, |
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