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I think this is an excellent idea. With a hangout plus irc, we have a replacement for webex. I'd like to create an OpenStack community youtube channel that we can use as the saved hangout target. How about we use irc:openstack-community as well?

~sean

On Jun 14, 2013, at 9:43 AM, "Stefano Maffulli" <stefano at openstack.org> wrote:

> On Fri 14 Jun 2013 08:42:30 AM PDT, Rafael Knuth wrote:
>> One of our key takeaways was that many attendees from emerging regions
>> like Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific were not able to join our
>> Google+ Hangout due to bandwidth limitations.
> 
> I have experienced the same issues with Hangouts with my brother in 
> Italy (his home is very distant from the ADSL switch --whatever it's 
> called, and his connection speed is very low). Hangout uses too much 
> bandwidth for some parts of the world.
> 
>> We spoke with OpenStackers in Ghana, Ethiopia, India and we came up
>> with the following idea: Why don't we transcribe our Google+ Hangout
>> sessions and distribute that content live via IRC?
> 
> Have you considered ditching Hangout altogether at this point and go 
> straight to IRC? What would Hangout be used for?
> 
> If (understandably) you would like to use voice for the meeting, I 
> would look at alternatives like Mumble/Murmur or good old phone lines 
> sided with slides shared online as simple html. For low bandwidth that 
> should be more than enough and every participant is on the same level 
> (no first class citizens).
> 
> Mozilla Foundation uses https://air.mozilla.org/ where they stream 
> audio and video (broadcast, from multiple sites now) from the rooms 
> they meet in and accept questions in from audience via IRC. This is an 
> example of a recorded meeting 
> https://air.mozilla.org/the-monday-meeting-20130610/. It used to be 
> less sophisticated than that, the latest recordings seem too fancy :)
> 
> I think it would be good to have a general purpose platform, simple to 
> use, to connect events across the world. I think a URL to announce the 
> event, share slides and one-click-connect to live audio stream (video, 
> if possible) would be great to have.
> 
> /stef
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