Talk:User group meeting agenda & minutes 21 May 2008

I looked at a couple of things related to the last user group meeting, and the item on how to get people involved got me looking at Skype a little more.

You can have up to nine people in on a Skype conversation, and I think there is now a video feature too, although I'm not sure what will work with it other than some webcams, where things might be able to be demonstrated.

While a group is discussing things with Skype, the conversation can be recorded, and then distributed later via mp3 file. I found a small fooprint software applet called 'Freecorder', but to get the most of this you have to pay for it, even there it is very cheap. You need the paid version to record more than two minutes of a Skype call or to get high-bitrate output.

In other words, that way we could have a small group in a room, with a microphone, and pass that around as people have questions, and the leader of that group giving answers and instruction, and it going out to a small number of others, then posting the file somewhere later. Could prove to be a very popular way of doing things.

One of the remote users, preferably one of the managers, could be using Freecorder to capture the audio remotely, the other seven would be on the call itself. The 'live' audience would also be small and it could be held in a conference room if there was no slot available at the FHL or JSMB, etc.