HI BARRY, I READ THIS AND INTENDENDED TO RAISE THE ISSUE YESTERDAY, BUT
WITH SOME NEW MEMBERS, I OVERLOOKED IT,
YES I WILL RAISE THIS AT THE NEXT MEETING
KIND REGARDS
PAUL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry O'Donnell" <odonnell.barry@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <fb-exchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2016 7:48 PM
Subject: [fb-exchange] Exchange club conference call possibility?
Hi Guyz,
At one of the Dublin Exchange Club meetings in 2015 which I attended, I
was
chatting to Cearbhall.
After an hour, I realised that Cearbhall's voice was a voice from the sky
via a facetime connection.
The quality of facetime was so good that it sounded like Cearbhall was
actually in the room.
Something that might be of interest for both the Dublin & Cork Groups,
particularly when people cannot attended a meeting.
I've used a German service many years ago called Voice bridge which is
still active.
http://www.voicebridge.eu/
Essentially, its a conferencing service & has local access numbers around
the globe.
In Ireland the local access number is in Cork 0212357000.
To give you an example, at one of the exchange club meetings, one of the
members present with a flat rate call package could dial the local access
number, 0212357000 and then enter the conference number followed by the
pound key when prompted.
For the Cork meeting on a Saturday, you could enter 021# for example.
Conference 021# is then active.
Other people who could not make the meeting could then dial the access
number and enter 021# for the conference number.
Interestingly, there is no limits on the number of participants.
For the Dublin meeting on a Monday at 11am, you could enter 001# for the
conference number & take things from there.
VoiceBridge conferencing manual:
Link:
http://www.voicebridge.eu/en/how-it-works.html
Extract from above.
When in a conference you can hit the following keys on your keypad:
1 = Become moderator
2 = Check room number
9 = Call operator (a human being at VoiceBridge)
0 = Exit room (and create or join a new one)
* (star) = Enter user / moderator menu
User menu:
1 = Mute/unmute your microphone
4 = Decrease the volume of the conference (press multiple times, then exit
with 8)
6 = Increase the volume of the conference (press multiple times, then exit
with 8)
7 = Decrease your microphones volume (press multiple times, then exit with
8)
9 = Increase your microphones volume (press multiple times, then exit with
8)
8 = Return to room
Moderator menu:
2 = Lock/unlock room (no more participants allowed)
3 = Kick out the last participant that joined the room
8 = Return to room
Voice bridge gives the following example.
Let's say you are located in Germany. Just call our access number in
Hannover and at the same time have your grandma in Russia call our access
number in Moscow, then both of you simply join into the same conference
room and speak with each other like you are used to. But with the
advantage
that both you and your grandma are only paying for a local landline call.
There is no limit on the number of participants. You can have a chat with
your grandma in Russia, father and mother in Sweden, sister and brother in
Canada at the same time if you feel like it. While you are waiting for the
other participant(s) to join your room we'll play some live internet radio
for you.
May be of use as Facetime is only a one to one connection.
Maybe you can do the above over Skype also but I am not familiar with it.
Have fun guys.
Best wishes,
Barry
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