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Subject: Re: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges
Drummond, they get a kickback from the telco on the long-distance call costs. In the UK you can make money out this by having a "national rate" number... everytime someone calls you, you get a penny a minute. Paul Drummond Reed wrote: >Paul, thanks for the tip, I didn't know they had that option. (I still get >asked all the time - and wonder myself - how do these guys DO it??) > >=Drummond > >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Fremantle [mailto:paul@wso2.com] >Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:19 PM >To: Drummond Reed >Cc: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org >Subject: Re: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges > >Drummond > >You can also use freeconference for up to a 100 people with a reserved >call and still no charge, as long as you dont need toll-free dial in. > >Paul > > >Drummond Reed wrote: > > > >>The XRI and XDI TCs also frequently used www.freeconference.com as our >>bridge. It's received some press recently as a popular alternative to paid, >>reservation-based services. Up to 25 participants can conference for up to >> >> >3 > > >>hours with no reservation and at no cost (though a toll call). >> >>They have an upgrade to paid service for reservation-based calls, toll-free >>numbers, or webconferencing. >> >>=Drummond >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: John M. Greacen [mailto:john@greacen.net] >>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:10 PM >>To: 'James Bryce Clark'; chairs@lists.oasis-open.org >>Cc: rob.figenbaum@oasis-open.org >>Subject: RE: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges >> >>The LegalXML Member Section TCs all use freeconference.com as our bridge. >>It is free and we have never had a problem with the service. >> >> >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:jamie.clark@oasis-open.org] >>>Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:04 PM >>>To: chairs@lists.oasis-open.org >>>Cc: rob.figenbaum@oasis-open.org >>>Subject: Re: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges >>> >>> Thanks, Kelvin. Tech staff (principally IT manager Rob Figenbaum) >>>gets the thanks for the iRC work. More to talk about, quite soon. >>> >>> On phones: global accessibility is a big concern for us also. On >>>the >>>other hand, our dues and infrastructure are a fraction of W3 -- >>>OASIS traditionally has been thin-client, fiscally and in other ways, by >>>design. On the third hand, the economics of phone service fundamentally >>>is >>>changing. >>> I know, from painful memory myself, that asking for and managing >>>bridges is an annoyance. More acutely, is it a barrier? To what extent >>>do >>>other leaders on this list think that phone bridge economics is a gating >>>issue for us? Is there a distinct issue for big vs. small TCs, or those >>>with wider vs. narrower geographic dispersion? >>> >>> Regards JBC >>> >>>~ James Bryce Clark >>>~ Director, Standards Development, OASIS >>>~ jamie.clark@oasis-open.org >>> >>>At 01:19 PM 9/22/2005, Kelvin Lawrence wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Jamie, I applaud you for doing this. I have found IRC very useful in the >>>>W3C meetings I have attended. This is a good sep forward. >>>>Related to this, are you making any progress towards having an OASIS >>>>provided (does not need to be 800 number) phone bridge for TC meetings? >>>>W3C also has this facility and it makes the life of the chair so much >>>>easier (as opposed to having to keep asking for people to sponsor calls) >>>>Cheers >>>>Kelvin >>>>WSS TC co-chair >>>>Kelvin R. Lawrence >>>>Distinguished Engineer & CTO, Emerging Internet Software Standards >>>>Member of the IBM Academy of Technology >>>>IBM Software Group. 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758. >>>>BLOG: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=730 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Paul Fremantle Co-Founder, Vice President of Technology WSO2, "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform" Yahoo IM: paulfremantle Cell/Mobile: +44 (0) 7740 199 729 Fax: +1 360 485-4275 paul@wso2.com
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