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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:43:38 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>
To:        Otter <otter@otter.cc>
Cc:        "Eddie H. Lawhead" <eddie.lawhead@knexa.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Conference Software
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.05.10004262226280.27589-100000@earth.wnm.net>
In-Reply-To: <39079D7A.73E4E4F1@otter.cc>

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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Otter wrote:

> "Eddie H. Lawhead" wrote:
> > 
> > Hello All!
> > 
> > I am search for a Netmeeting compatible conferencing solution.  I have
> > looked at Speak Freely, but it seems to be harder to use than it should
> > be.  A few questions:
> > 
> > 1) Does speakfreely have any decent guis?
> > 2) Any commercial packages available (I'd pay a decent amount for a
> >         good product)
> > 3) Any good tutorial for using Speak Freely
> > 4) Any other options you all can think of?
> > 

I've lazily looked into it, downloaded and installed it and found the
whole system to be rather arcane and the interface very unfriendly, the
current version being no better than older ones. As far I know, there are
no tools to make it more approachable for people who don't have the time
to figure it out, or any documentation that wasn't written by and for 
emacs hackers.

> If you're willing to pay a good chunk of change, I've heard there's a
> decent app for Solaris called Conference Room, or something like that.
> I'm not familiar with it, just have heard of it. Anyone have
> experience running this with the SVR4 compat mode? Might be worth
> checking into...

Conference Room is a multi-platform ircd which has a perfectly good
FreeBSD native version. It's not what's thought of as "conferencing
software." You can get something just as good for free, by the way, but I
don't think it's ircd you want to run...

You might want to look at freephone
(http://www-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/fphone/index.html) and see if that suits
you.

hth

-ac

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