Re: [humanmarkup] Fw: Chat Room

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Well i'll be danged!

Why bother with the irc or yahoo, then? I know the About.com works 
and is publicly loggable, and that's the tricky part.

Actually, it doesn't require a full-fledged site. Just the chat part, 
and it would probably be a double money maker for About.com. They get 
to put their ads on it and we get the loggableness as a public record.

So, go ahead with the irc-yahoo test, but take my word for it, sooner 
or later, and probably sooner, they will be both go down simultaneous 
because they are not reliable signals, that is they a udp, ureliable 
datapacket protocol not rdp if you put your networking hat on.

Ciao,
Rex

At 12:05 PM -0500 11/12/01, Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga wrote:
>We basically have the go-ahead to pursue a chatroom as an experiment.
>I suggest we do it for our next meeting on November 21st, since I'd like to
>get you in Manos especially.
>
>I suggest we use 2 systems:  1) IRC   2) Yahoo conference
>If 1) doesn't work, we try 2).
>If neither works, we'll still have teleconferencing setup as a backup
>
>We'll do a trial run beforehand...I suggest next Monday noon EST, and make
>sure all parties can connect.
>
>Rex:  The issue regarding About.com's chat hosting is that we are *only*
>looking for chat service (*not* a hosting site for humanmarkup discussion).
>About.com involves creating a full fledged site, which Sandy suggested may
>be inappropriate when I mentioned it to him.
>
>Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>
>To: "Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga" <rkthunga@humanmarkup.org>
>Cc: "Karl" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>
>Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:49 AM
>Subject: RE: Chat Room
>
>
>>  Ranjeeth:
>>
>>  OK, thanks for warning me in advance. Please let me know how it turns
>>  out, what works and what doesn't etc. We're starting to look at what
>>  additional functionality OASIS needs to provide to the TCs, and chat or
>>  other electronic meeting facilities is on the list. I'm trying to figure
>>  out what would be the best way to do this.
>>
>>  </karl>
>>  =================================================================
>>  Karl F. Best
>>  OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
>>  978.667.5115 x206
>>  karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org
>>
>>
>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  > From: Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga [mailto:rkthunga@humanmarkup.org]
>>  > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:56 PM
>>  > To: karl.best@oasis-open.org
>>  > Subject: Chat Room
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Hi Karl,
>>  >
>>  > We are in the process of establishing a new chat room service.  We
>>  > absolutely would benefit from being able to bring in a couple of our
>>  > international members, who haven't yet had a chance to
>>  > participate in the
>>  > meetings till now due to budgetary constraints and access issues for
>>  > telecon.  In keeping with OASIS guidelines, we will be
>>  > ensuring that the
>>  > chat is completely reliable, loggable, and accessible to all members.
>>  >
>>  > You mentioned in our first meeting that you were willing to let us
>>  > experiment with such a chat service to see if it works out,
>>  > so I wanted to
>>  > ask you if we could go ahead and proceed in this manner.  Do
>>  > let me know.
>>  >
>>  > Hear from you soon.  Take care,
>>  >
>>  > Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>>
>
>
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