Hi Matt
Without wishing to stir up a hornet's nest, may I respectfully suggest that we _don't_ change. It took the rest of us time and effort already to get Teamspeak set up, and now it's all tried and tested. I really don't think it's necessarily fair for everyone to have to change just because of one individual's opinion on it being open source.
Remembering back to the issues we had getting aquainted originally when set up Teamspeak as a conferencing tool, I feel that changing now would actually be a detriment to productivity.
If it works, why fix it?
Again, I must reiterate that it is not my intention to upset the apple cart, it's just that Teamspeak would seem to be the very least of our problems right now!
73, Howard G6LVB
-----Original Message----- From: eagle-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:eagle-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Matt Ettus Sent: 02 January 2008 18:29 To: Robert McGwier Cc: 'AMSAT BoD'; 'EAGLE'; AMSAT Advisors; AMSAT Officers Subject: [eagle] Re: Proposed agenda for Jan. 8 TS meeting
Robert McGwier wrote:
This is a proposed agenda for next week's meeting. Poor Howard! If he cannot make it for that meeting, we will get the report from him earlier and deliver it.
Please send me your modifications. I will contact each of the proposed presenters directly.
http://n4hy.org/AMSAT_Engineering_Meeting_2008_i.pdf
Barry Baines is the leader of the meeting and the time enforcer.
Bob
In the past I have not participated in these teamspeak meetings for a number of reasons, mostly centered around TeamSpeak itself, which is most definitely NOT open source, and not terribly good either, in my opinion. The developers are quite open about the fact that they will NEVER open it up:
http://forum.teamspeak.com/archive/index.php/t-372.html
Clearly it is too short of a time frame to switch for this meeting, but I would really like to investigate some other option which is open. A very quick google search turned up the following:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/
It is open, has clients for Windows and Linux, and seems to have a lot of happy users. As a bonus, it uses the Speex audio codec which we are considering for use in many AMSAT and other ham applications. This would make tying the internet- and satellite- connected conversations together easier.
If some people would like to test this with me, let me know. At least one Linux user, on Windows user, and maybe a Mac person who knows how to compile common open source apps would be useful.
Matt
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