Re: Improving dial-in experience

Is there an option to use Skype to connect to the calls? (am I reading that
correctly?)

I would use the LinPhone client on my Macbook, but I cannot figure out why
it fails to connect - I'm technical enough that pointers to troubleshooting
information or a 'known good' config would be enough for me to figure it
out.

So I revert to POTS...

thanks
andrew.

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On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On 10/21/2017 07:25 PM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> > You won't have a way for people to dial in via traditional phone
> > lines though.
>
> This is why just about every other VoIP only solution has failed at
> scale at W3C. I think it may have succeeded in the Social Web WG because
> the group consists of a fairly small number of technical people
> contributing that are okay with installing new software whose only
> purpose is connecting to the Social WG call (granted, one could make the
> same argument for SIP clients).
>
> When you're trying to build an inclusive community, you don't want to
> set the barriers to entry too high... and VoIP-only, especially when
> it's home grown (even though it's open source), is a barrier.
>
> > I'd be willing to test-host a single CCG call if it would help for
> > giving a trial run.  But I know you all have put a lot of effort into
> > your Asterisk setup so I totally get if you'd prefer not to!
>
> I don't think it's about how much effort we've put into the Asterisk
> setup (which is a non-trivial amount of work over the years), but more
> around maximizing the number of ways someone can connect with the group.
>
> At present we have:
>
> * Skype / Hangouts
> * SIP clients
> * Plain 'ol telephone dial-in
>
> Also note that we have other requirements for transparency purposes,
> such as full audio recordings of calls and a minutes publishing system
> that supports all of this.
>
> We still have around 5-8 people per call that use dial-in, sometimes
> they're dialing in because they're at the airport and can't depend on
> their data connection. So, we can't really get rid of that option w/o
> also making it impossible for those folks to participate (which is the
> whole point of the calls). :)
>
> In any case, food for thought. +1 to getting more people connecting more
> easily to the calls. Some of the requirements are:
>
> * Plain 'ol telephone dial-in
> * Call recording and publishing for scribe cleanup purposes
> * One or more easy, cross-platform, VoIP solutions
>
> -- manu
>
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>
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