Online Videoconferences

As promised, as a followup to our team meeting in the Silicon Valley in December, we're going to have some realtime online videoconferences. The first will be a general meeting, Saturday February 11, 9-10:30 am Pacific Time (1700 GMT; converter http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html), for everyone in which new folks can get a sense of the project and the people working on it, we can get updates, and plan next steps. We'll use Flashmeeting.com software, which allows video, audio and text. There's no software to download, but you will need the free Flash plugin (version 7 or greater; you can get it at http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/ ). At a minumum, you'll want speakers. A microphone is nice, but a webcam is not at all necessary (but fun and cost as little as twenty bucks at most electronic stores or here's ebay: a headset is useful to minimize feedback ebay).

The 2/11 session can be accessed at http://flash.kmi.open.ac.uk:8080/fm/index.php?pwd=161f58-3151

I highly recommend that you go to http://www.flashmeeting.com/ and hit the demo link to test your computer setup. You can do this anytime, though I will login a half hour before the meetings for informal chat and getting familiar with the Flashmeeting interface, though it's pretty straightforward. The software does limit us to 20 or so users, so logging in early is a good idea.

As with our last online meeting, you can log into Groupmeeting Express http://gme.groupmindexpress.com/k-web/index.php3?object_id=c7745762c7917a09b94039b4523afb94&t=1138906928 to add input before, during and after the realtime session (and obviously anyone who can't attend the realtime session can participate in this way). If you want a login for this (or a reminder of your old one) let me know, but you can also use the guest login (username guest, password guest, and identify yourself at the end of each entry if you like). You can also replay the videoconferences (see links below).

Technical Meeting: The following Saturday 2/18 at 9:00 am PST (8:30 tech check), we'll have folks interested in the technology side (programmers, but also beta testers, teachers and other users who we can consult on features etc). Access Flashmeeting at http://flash.kmi.open.ac.uk:8080/fm/index.php?pwd=3a0d2b-3152

Education Meeting: The next Saturday 2/25, also at 9 am PST (8:30 tech check), will be for folks specifically interested in talking about how to use the K-Web for education (in schools, but also home schooling, informal and lifelong learning, etc). Access this meeting at http://flash.kmi.open.ac.uk:8080/fm/index.php?pwd=d44e60-3153

Replay 2/11 General meeting http://flash.kmi.open.ac.uk:8080/fm/memo.php?pwd=161f58-3151

Replay 2/18 Technical meeting http://flash.kmi.open.ac.uk:8080/fm/memo.php?pwd=3a0d2b-3152

Replay 2/11 Education meeting http://flash.kmi.open.ac.uk:8080/fm/memo.php?pwd=d44e60-3153

Minutes may also be available, ask me if you'd like to see them. Background and news at http://k-web.org/

Please let me know if you have questions or suggestions,


Patrick McKercher
K-Web.org Project Mgr
UC Santa Cruz
831 459-2083
http://people.ucsc.edu/~pmmckerc
pat13@dslextreme.com