From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Mar 3 22:21:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA28050 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 22:21:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA28045 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 22:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA21262; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 22:20:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 22:20:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Julian Elischer cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FUN/WORK] BSD Networking virtual meeting. In-Reply-To: <331B9A36.41C67EA6@whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Julian Elischer wrote: > I'd like to set up a 'virtual meeting' with the intent of > 1/ trying to see if we can make something useful out of the > Mbone. I think the IETF people would differ :) > 2/ Try get a good forum together to discuss some problems that > I'm seeing, and changes that people are contemplating with > the networking code. This would be FreeBSD development like no one has ever seen, and I guess I mean 'seen' literally. :) > It'd be nice to see if we can figure out to get > a meeting together to discuss these things > and help us all co-ordinate this, > as well as trying to see if we can get as many people > involved as a learning experience as possible. The hardest part is timing. FreeBSD is such a worldwide endeavor, it's hard to pick a time when everyone is awake. :) For you and I and several others it's not so bad since we're on the US west coast, but for Amancio it's a completely different time. > I'd like ot have an mbone section with a 'chat room' > along side so that people with no access to > mbone can also learn something.. > is there anyone else who'd be intersted? > I'm not only looking for people to watch but I'd like to have > maybe Bill Fenner and Garret on hand too to discuss > the pro's and cons of some of the things that I think > might come up. It might even be possible to get some of the > EX CSRG folks in if it sounds like it might be useful. That would be neat. Assuming it's some date & time I'll be here or have access to a mbone-capable workstation, I'd like to join in and offer whatever (limited) expertise I can. This is sticky since for the majority of mbone activites, I'm usually in class. I should borrow my associate's P133 X-ified laptop and bend the mbone utilities to my will. Compile in the qcam driver and the audio, if the SB-compatible card in it won't blow up trying to fake full duplex, and that should get me up and running. (UO Housing is a Mac camp and the PC on the desk is a purely Windoze box. Argh.) > Certainly if we can once work out the technology for this we should > be able to use it to great effect! And a free(BSD) plug -- yes, you can pay thousands of dollars to do realtime conferencing, but we chose not to and did it anyway. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major