International meeting to use Skype
Jaume de Marcos at his new blog UU Without Borders notes the UUA International Office is hosting a “Skypecast” — a multi-user audio chat using the Skype voice telegraphy software. I’ve never gotten much out of Skype personally, but if the bandwidth holds among the various participants, this might be a useful communication mode.
I continue to wonder if a form of keyboard-based chat might be a helpful if untapped tool for meetings where the participants are scattered over very far distances, as seen in Linux development communities.
26 November 2007 at 5:53 am
Thanks for quoting and the link! Skype is most useful for international PC-to-phone calls, because rates are amazingly cheap. I also wonder about the audio quality of a skypecast. Although one-to-one conversation are usually of good quality, my experience with more than 4 participants in a single conversation is poor quality and unwelcome screeching, but that was with a regular multiuser call, and the skypecast mode may work differently. We’ll see.