Re: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges

On Sep 23, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:

> Paul, thanks for the tip, I didn't know they had that option. (I still 
> get
> asked all the time - and wonder myself - how do these guys DO it??)

They make money when you use their "premium 800" service, and i think 
they somehow get some revenue by the way calls are routed to the 
dial-in numbers they use.
  jeff
>
> =Drummond
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Fremantle [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 11:19 PM
> To: Drummond Reed
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges
>
> Drummond
>
> You can also use freeconference for up to a 100 people with a reserved
> call and still no charge, as long as you dont need toll-free dial in.
>
> Paul
>
>
> Drummond Reed wrote:
>
>> The XRI and XDI TCs also frequently used www.freeconference.com as our
>> bridge. It's received some press recently as a popular alternative to 
>> paid,
>> reservation-based services. Up to 25 participants can conference for 
>> up to
> 3
>> hours with no reservation and at no cost (though a toll call).
>>
>> They have an upgrade to paid service for reservation-based calls, 
>> toll-free
>> numbers, or webconferencing.
>>
>> =Drummond
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John M. Greacen [mailto:]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:10 PM
>> To: 'James Bryce Clark'; 
>> Cc: 
>> Subject: RE: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges
>>
>> The LegalXML Member Section TCs all use freeconference.com as our 
>> bridge.
>> It is free and we have never had a problem with the service.
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: James Bryce Clark [mailto:]
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:04 PM
>>> To: 
>>> Cc: 
>>> Subject: Re: [chairs] OASIS IRC, and phone bridges
>>>
>>>     Thanks, Kelvin.  Tech staff (principally IT manager Rob 
>>> Figenbaum)
>>> gets the thanks for the iRC work.  More to talk about, quite soon.
>>>
>>>     On phones:  global accessibility is a big concern for us also.  
>>> On
>>> the
>>> other hand, our dues and infrastructure are a fraction of W3 --
>>> OASIS  traditionally has been thin-client, fiscally and in other 
>>> ways, by
>>> design.  On the third hand, the economics of phone service 
>>> fundamentally
>>> is
>>> changing.
>>>      I know, from painful memory myself, that asking for and managing
>>> bridges is an annoyance.  More acutely, is it a barrier?  To what 
>>> extent
>>> do
>>> other leaders on this list think that phone bridge economics is a 
>>> gating
>>> issue for us?  Is there a distinct issue for big vs. small TCs, or 
>>> those
>>> with wider vs. narrower geographic dispersion?
>>>
>>>     Regards JBC
>>>
>>> ~   James Bryce Clark
>>> ~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS
>>> ~   
>>>
>>> At 01:19 PM 9/22/2005, Kelvin Lawrence wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Jamie, I applaud you for doing this. I have found IRC very useful 
>>>> in the
>>>> W3C meetings I have attended. This is a good sep forward.
>>>> Related to this, are you making any progress towards having an OASIS
>>>> provided (does not need to be 800 number) phone bridge for TC 
>>>> meetings?
>>>> W3C also has this facility and it makes the life of the chair so 
>>>> much
>>>> easier (as opposed to having to keep asking for people to sponsor 
>>>> calls)
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Kelvin
>>>> WSS TC co-chair
>>>> Kelvin R. Lawrence
>>>> Distinguished Engineer & CTO, Emerging Internet Software Standards
>>>> Member of the IBM Academy of Technology
>>>> IBM Software Group. 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758.
>>>> BLOG: 
>>>> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=730
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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