[chapter-delegates] RE2: Reminder: Tsunami Alert Network : (IM Client for tomorrow)

[Lynn St.Amour]

Andreu,

I've just set up a yahoo account (thought I'd never see the day but :-)).

My ID is: lynstamour

see you all soon.

Lynn

At 1:26 AM -0800 3/29/05, Andreu Vea' wrote:
>Dear Franck,
>
>You-re very welcome to connect and use the IM client that you prefer.
>
>But as I said to this list, I don-t want to start another (never-ending)
>discussion about the "best" IM client... And never less than 24h before we
>start our meeting. This only would bring confussion, to the people who is
>their first time with messenger.
>
>Time and experience with groups bigger than 20 people chatting concurrently
>will tell us which is the most convenient.
>
>Due Yahoo Messenger its free, multiplatform tested by millions of people who
>use it daily and it is multilanguage I picked this IM client for our monthly
>meetings. And this will be the one which will Host our meeting tomorrow.
>
>Specially the video codecs (much more efficient) is what made me decide.
>
>
>I've tested Gaim, after your kind message, and I have seen that has nice
>features, (multi/protocol) that will allow you to connect (only text)
>tomorrow with us. But not using any video device. Not supported. And the
>attach/file feature must be still improved.
>
>So as I said, use the IM client that best fit your needs (Gaim, Trillian,
>Miranda, Qnext, Integrity Messenger...)
>The idea is that all those who have webcam, can use it. Otherwise you can
>add your picture. So we can see "our faces" while talking.
>
>"Conceptually" I totally agree with the spirit of your suggestion, I'm an
>open/source oriented. But for this kind of events where installation must be
>easy and nothing can't fail, I prefer (and I've tested more) Yahoo IM.
>
>If you've an open source solution, with real-time video, multiplatform,
>multilingual and tested with more than 20 simultaneous users, please write
>me privately and we'll discuss about changing for future meetings.
>
>But let's focus on the "Topic of the meeting" the Tsunami Alert Network and
>not in the bearer of our information.
>Franck, I look forward to see you in the meeting.
>
>		andreu
>
>
>
>-----Mensaje original-----
>De: Franck Martin [mailto:franck at sopac.org]
>Enviado el: lunes, 28 de marzo de 2005 21:08
>Para: Baker Fred
>CC: andreu at veabaro.info; lroberts at packet.cc;
>chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org; 'Michael R Nelson'; jd at isoc-es.org;
>kahn at cnri.reston.va.us; 'Lynn St.Amour'; 'Vinton G. Cerf'
>Asunto: Re: [chapter-delegates] Re: Reminder: Tsunami Alert Network : more
>necessary than ever
>
>While Yahoo messenger is a good piece of propietary software, shouldn't we
>use something that follows an RFC?
>
>Like jabber for instance to do all the online meetings.
>
>This is what APNIC does, and I think ISOC should use protocols/open
>standards promoted by IETF.
>
>gaim.sourceforge.net has a jabber client for Linux and Windows.
>
>Cheers
>
>Baker Fred wrote:
>
>>  On Yahoo, I am FredBakerSBA
>>
>>
>>  On Mar 28, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Andreu Vea' wrote:
>>
>>>  After 3 months today (Monday 16:00h GMT) Indonesia trembled again
>>>  with  a terrible 8.2 Richter earthquake.
>>>   Our long time ago scheduled meeting will be more opportunistic than
>>>  ever.
>>> 
>>>  This note is to remind you that:
>>> 
>>>  After the great success of our last real-time meeting I look to see
>>>  you tomorrow (Tuesday)  we'll discuss and learn about the "Tsunami
>>>  Alert Network" with Fred Baker (co-author of the Draft)
>>> 
>>>  Looking forward to have our chapter delegate in Indonesia (Jakarta)
>>>  Irwan Effendi online to give us a real
>>> 
>>>  MEETING DETAILS:
>>>  -----------------------------------
>>>  -8<------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>  --
>>>  -
>>>      Date: Tuesday, March the 29th
>>>      Time: 12h (noon) Pacific Time, 15h (Eastern US Time)  Spain 22h
>  >> (GMT+1)
>>>      Topic: "Tsunami Alert Network"
>>>      Invited Guest Star this month  ;-)   ::   Fred Baker (Co-author
>>>  of  the draft, and Cisco Fellow)
>>>      Status : Confirmed
>>> 
>>>  NOTE: Attention European countries changed the hour this week, US
>>>  will  do it next Sunday.
>>>                  Follow the examples, if any doubt just drop me a note.
>>>             
>>>            
>>>    ---------
>>>  -8<------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>  --
>>>  ---------------------------
>>> 
>>>  RECOMMENDED:
>>> 
>>>  If you didn't attend the "testing-tools meeting" two weeks ago,
>>>  please  let me know your yahoo ID till 5 minutes before the meeting
>>>  start  time, so I'll invite and add you to the conference room.
>>> 
>>>  To the rest of us,
>>> 
>>>  Add to your Yahoo Messenger http://messenger.yahoo.com private list
>>>  the following IDs from other  Delegates  (Click here):
>>> 
>>>  [HTML]  
>>>  http://www.veabaro.info/stanford/wiwiw/isoc/2005-03-15-ISOC-DELEGATES
>>>  -
>>>  FIRST-MEETING.htm
>>> 
>>>  [PDF]   
>>>  http://www.veabaro.info/stanford/wiwiw/isoc/2005-03-15-ISOC-DELEGATES
>>>  -
>>>  FIRST-MEETING-2.pdf
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  Save it in a proper place, (the content of this link will be removed
>>>  in few days)
>>> 
>>>          andreu
>>> 
>>>  NOTE: The solely purpose of these monthly meetings, is to know more
>>>  between us (the ISOC-chapter-delegates micro-community) and our
>>>  different realities in order to strength our relationships and be
>>>  able  to inter-cooperate between chapters in the future.
>>> 
>>>  I copied Vint,  Bob, Larry and a few others in order to let them know 
>>>  that if they want to participate they will be more than welcomed. But 
>>>  knowing how dense are their calendars... don't need to excuse if they 
>>>  can't make it. Is Just FYI.
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  Andreu Vea'  Ph.D.
>>>  Internet Research Scholar
>>>  Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
>>>  andreu at veabaro.info  /  andreu at stanford.edu http://WiWiW.org (Who is
>>>  Who in the Internet world) VP  ISOC-ES (Spain) and ISOC-CAT
>>>  co-founder.
>>> 
>>
>
>--
>Franck Martin
>ICT Specialist
>franck at sopac.org
>SOPAC, Fiji
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