Conference Calls

Bond,

E. Bond Francisco wrote:  
> I'm looking for ways to set up a regurlary scheduled
series of conference
> calls -- for free, or course! I know that IST/CNS has a
conference call
> service. You pay $7.60 for a one time setup charge for
the reservation call
> feature, and then $.18 a minute for any calls you make.
However, I'm
> wondering if there's some sort of web service or
something that allows you
> to set up these kinds of calls for free. We can always
hope! I'd appreciate
> any clues.

http://www.freeconfere
nce.com/

i've been on one conference call using freeconference, as a
hastily scheduled
replacement when the "host" for a
commercially-scheduled call failed to
attend. the audio quality was not great, but it certainly
filled our urgent
need: we were able to have the needed discussion.

so, this is not a recommendation since i don't feel i have
enough experience
with them to make a recommendation, but it's an option that
you can explore.

ken

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I second the Skype recommendation from Steve (as long as you
have 9 
or fewer participants)!  I've got a Skype conference call
with folks 
from British Columbia, Florida State, Maryland, and MIT at
11am today 
- we also use a Breeze server (loaned to us by Indiana
University) 
for video and shared whiteboard at the same time.

Tim Heidinger has used PolyCom software for desktop
videoconferencing 
with PolyCom equipped rooms at other universities and I've
used 
XMeeting (Free for Mac) with the PolyCom and I've also tried
to use 
Ekiga (Free for PC but doesn't work with the PolyCom for me
just yet).

Perhaps a group of potential users could email each other
their Skype 
IDs and give Skype a test?

Tomo



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