[ImageJ-devel] ImageJ developers chat room

[Lee Kamentsky]

Hi all,
It appears that the public chat feature isn't available on the Windows 
Skype client - too bad. I think I'm in favor of using the lowest common 
denominator for communication - e-mail to imagej-devel for formal 
correspondence and IRC for informal. I've never done it before, but it 
is possible to set up a conference call using Skype. My Skype account 
for here at the Broad is leek.broadinstitute.org.

We (Adam and I) are going to be attending most meetings remotely, 
including the one this afternoon, so I'm wondering what we can use 
there. I recently used www.gotomeeting.com and that was pretty 
successful. It has audio (via computer or phone-in) and screen sharing 
and can host up to 15 people / meeting. The cost is about $500 / year 
which seems exorbitant when so many other things are free... There is a 
trial available which I'd hope might serve us for this afternoon's meeting.

--Lee


Curtis Rueden wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Rick Lentz <rlentz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> http://www.skype.com/go/joinpublicchat?skypename=loci_rick_lentz&topic=ImageJDev&blob=7ddlL5yA6PbqkVkSn382T7ixxSJ6aAADhLRW4smw0Chg81X4MHaePzpTHJviUzftGZEnWqI3H53IXrW4
>>
>>     
>
> To explain a bit: Rick set up a Skype-based chat room, which you are all
> welcome to join via the above link, to stay connected on the ImageJDev
> project. As I said before, it's very handy for discussing technical issues,
> and for making announcements to the group without needing to use email.
>
> -Curtis
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Rick Lentz <rlentz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> http://www.skype.com/go/joinpublicchat?skypename=loci_rick_lentz&topic=ImageJDev&blob=7ddlL5yA6PbqkVkSn382T7ixxSJ6aAADhLRW4smw0Chg81X4MHaePzpTHJviUzftGZEnWqI3H53IXrW4
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Curtis Rueden <ctrueden at wisc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>  Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I thought it would be useful to have an ImageJ developers chat room. I
>>> have seen it work well for the Fiji and OME teams, as it helps keep
>>> geographically distributed people in touch, and allows technical chatter
>>> without the immediate interruption of other forms of communication.
>>>
>>> One question is: what is the best software to use to host such a room? The
>>> Fiji team uses IRC (freenode.net), whereas the OME team has their own
>>> Jabber server. For the time being, I created a persistent chat room on
>>> conference.jabber.org called imagejdev with password loci, which you are
>>> welcome to join.
>>>
>>> You will need a client capable of joining password-protected Jabber chat
>>> rooms (unfortunately, it appears that iChat and the GTalk client do not
>>> support it—please correct me if I am wrong). I use Adium on Mac OS X, and
>>> Pidgin will almost certainly work on Win/Linux.
>>>
>>> For Jabber accounts, it should work to use either a Google account
>>> (GTalk), or for UW-Madison folks your wisc.edu address (WiscChat—see
>>> http://www.doit.wisc.edu/wiscchat/).
>>>
>>> -Curtis
>>>
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>>>
>>>       
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Rick Lentz
>> (608) 217-8592
>> Bascom Hall - "...ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and
>> winnowing by which alone the truth can be found"
>>
>>     
>
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