FP Chat Room

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Matthew Williams <matthew.d.williams at gmail.com>:

> I just recently hopped on the list so I'm not sure how many
> suggestions have been tossed up in the air.  I made a quick attempt at
> running that iVocalize client on a machine here at work just to check
> it out and couldn't get it to run (windows 98 machine), i'm sure I
> would have no problem on one of the XP boxes.

Define "doesn't work".  :-)

I installed it on my Win98 box, and I got an error about not being able
to open the audio input device, but there is no mic on that system, so I
don't know if it's a Win98 issue or a no microphone issue.

> However, would setting up a IRC chat room be more structured?  I've
> seen lectures and Q&A sessions held quite well on IRC, not to mention
> it could be logged for those who cannot make it as well as there are
> clients available for anything and everything, heck, my PDA (Zaurus
> SL-5500) has many IRC client options!

IRC is okay, but it's still just text.  Basically, it's not much
different than this mailing list, except it's almost instantaneous.
The fPChat room is voice, which seems to be an order of magnitude
better for things like this than plain text.  (Video would be an
order of magnitude higher still, but that's still a bit away before
everyoe will have the bandwidth and hardware to participate in a
video conference.)

The audio portion was recorded by several people into WMA files, and
John has a WMA-to-MP3 converter and is planning on making the MP3
file available for download.  I believe that Laura has offered space
on her website for this, as have others.

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