[tei-council] meeting technologies

[Edward Vanhoutte]

Conference calls usually cost me about 15-20 EUR which is not too bad.

Edward

Susan Schreibman wrote:

> On the other hand, it is very expensive for people phoning from 
> outside the US for an hour and a half -- that seems to be the real 
> problem. The people from Oxford can conference call each other in and 
> then just have one international line to the US, which really does 
> save quite a bit.
>
> I'm wondering if there is any way left to reduce the costs somehow to 
> others phoning from abroad.
>
> susan
>
>
> Christian Wittern wrote:
>
>> Susan Schreibman <sschreib at umd.edu> writes:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> We switched to IM meetings for teiPublisher because the phone calls
>>> were too expensive for some of the team. They were far less
>>> satisfactory than telephone calls, and writing up minutes took forever
>>> as one had to wade through the entire chat session.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Thank you, that is the kind of information I thought we could come up
>> with by testing it in a small group.
>> So the one proposal left at the moment would be to use IM in addition
>> to our conference calls courtesy of Indiana University?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>  
>>
>

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Edward Vanhoutte
Researcher
University of Antwerp
Associate Editor, Literary and Linguistic Computing
University of Antwerp - CDE
Dept. of Literature
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Belgium

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