[ImageJ-devel] ImageJ developers chat room

[Curtis Rueden]

Hi everyone,

Lee managed to get connected to the Skype room, so it looks like Windows
Skype does support multi-user chat after all.

Regarding the meetings, what has worked well for us so far is to send out
the slides in advance to those attending, and then use a Skype conference
call to follow along with the speaker. We'll see how well it works this
afternoon.

-Curtis

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Lee Kamentsky <leek at broadinstitute.org>wrote:

>  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> <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> <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> <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 onconference.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—seehttp://www.doit.wisc.edu/wiscchat/).
>
> -Curtis
>
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>        --
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>
> Rick Lentz
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