<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body>Short contribution... I use Access Grid on a weekly basis. It is essentially a collection of conferencing tools and a means to share connection details thereof. It uses vic and rat (audio and video) -- tools with GUIs built using tk-tcl -- and other non-essential tools built on jabber protocols etc. The AG tooling assumed multicast enabled networks but for point to point this is not necessary; and UK's AG infrastructure provided bridging on and off the mbone as well as support: this was provided by <a href="http://ja.net">ja.net</a> and formerly Manchester uni. <br>
HTH<br>
Mike J.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px">james riley <jimr1603@gmail.com> writes:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Apologies to those who are getting this 2ce since Gmail doesn't seem<br />to handle replying to just mailing lists.<br /><br />I'm suddenly very interested in a Skype alternative since for a couple<br />of weeks I'm likely to see my supervisor by Skype. Undesirable. (But<br />at least I can use uni hardware that's already dirtied by its presence<br />:P) Is there an alternative that works well on GNU/Linux & Windows and<br />is incredibly painless, since I'll have to persuade 2 windows users to<br />install something else.</blockquote><br />I'm not sure whether it's relevant, but:<br /><br />As I understand it, the JANET video conferencing service ("access grid")<br />is usable with free software originating in the old MBONE stuff from<br />UCL, and now <<a href="https://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/accessgrid/>">https://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/accessgrid/></a>;.<br />However, I've had no need of AG since our VC room with proprietary<br />software was scrapped, so I can't vouch for it. AG has non-trivial<br />notworking issues, which presumably rule it out for general use, but<br />major universities are likely to have that sorted. AG is, or was,<br />supported at Manchester; perhaps an expert is listening?<br /><br /><hr /><br />Fsuk-manchester mailing list<br />Fsuk-manchester@nongnu.org<br /><a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester">https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsuk-manchester</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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