web conference

[Carl Parrish]

I've had good results with Ready Talk.
On Mar 4, 2011 11:23 AM, "der.hans" <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> a vendor wants to share a desktop with dial in for voice for some
meetings.
> Said vendor is using gotomeeting which does not support GNU/Linux. I'm
> going to point out that deficiency and suggest we use a service that does
> work.
>
> Haven't needed to use web conferencing for a while. Any suggestions on
> what's good now?
>
> Lots of suggestions for DimDim, but it was purchased and is no longer
> available.
>
> I found suggestions for Yugma and Vyew, both claiming to support all 3
> major desktop OSen. The source also says Zoho Meeting does, but since Zoho
> Meeting's site doesn't want to confirm that I'm ignoring it for now.
>
> WebEx is also out there and supports all 3 platforms. I believe GNU/Linux
> can not share the desktop, but that's fine in this particular case.
>
> In our case we'll have at least 3 people from the vendor and 3 people from
> my company in the meetings.
>
> We've been using[0] Skype for the calls, but the vendor would like
> something more reliable than Skype and would like to share presentations.
> I also need to find something other than Skype :).
>
> Yugma has a Skype plugin, but it looks like you can also call in to a
> conference bridge. That's sufficient. We don't need VoIP, but it would be
> cool if we could reliably use it.
>
> [0] For values of using that include 'reconnecting frequently due to
> technical problems'.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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