Re: [CDAO-discuss] CDAO-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 3

[Vision, T. (Biology) <tj...@bi...>]

Folks,

You might want to give EVO a try for your teleconferences.  It is free to
use, is extremely tunable and powerful (can be used for video, data, etc),
and seems to be working quite robustly for the phyloseminar group:
http://phyloseminar.org/connect.html

Plus, can't beat the name.

Cheers,
Todd


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>    1. scheduling for next meeting; regular monthly meetings
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>    2. RES:  scheduling for next meeting; regular monthly meetings
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> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:07:21 -0500
> From: Arlin Stoltzfus <sto...@um...>
> Subject: [CDAO-discuss] scheduling for next meeting; regular monthly
> meetings
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> Hello all.  I'm just about back to normal after returning from France
> on Saturday.
> 
> I'd like to have a CDAO teleconference this month.  Our web site is
> out of date, and we have some opportunities opening up that I would
> like to discuss.  In fact, I would like to have a teleconference every
> month.  We discussed this last time (Nov 2) but there were not enough
> people to make a decision.
> 
> Also last time, Julie and Francisco had trouble connecting with
> Skype-- thats another issue that we need to address.
> 
> So, can you please help me with the following three things, each of
> which will take a few minutes:
> 
> 1.  Take the doodle poll to choose the next telecon:
> http://www.doodle.com/khuwm9t83d8qmeaz
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> 2.  Reply to this message with your choices for the best time for a
> regular monthly meeting (just arrange the options with > and = to
> indicate preference, e.g., M = F > T = W = Th)
> 
> * best day of the week: M T W Th F
> 
> * best week of the month: 1 2 3 4
> 
> * best time of the day (Eastern US): 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 14:00
> 
> 3.  In a separate reply, share your ideas for how to make a monthly
> meeting both effective and accessible.  We have been holding
> teleconferences using a system where each person has to pay to call
> in.  Some people are using Skype to avoid the costs, but this
> introduces other issues.  What other possibilities are there?  The
> purpose of our meetings is to make decisions, share information, and
> build cohesion over priorities and responsibility.  Are there other
> ways to do this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Arlin
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> Arlin Stoltzfus (sto...@um...)
> Fellow, CARB; Adj. Assoc. Prof., UMBI; Research Biologist, NIST
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> From: "Francisco Prosdocimi" <fra...@uc...>
> Subject: [CDAO-discuss] RES:  scheduling for next meeting; regular
> monthly meetings
> To: "Arlin Stoltzfus" <sto...@um...>,
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> Bonjour a tous! :)
> 
> I'm curious to know about what was going on in France. I wish I was there.
> I filled the doodle dates... sorry, but this is gonna be the last week of the
> semester and I'm a bit busy. But there is still a lot of dates/times to have
> the meeting.
> 
> I prefer the meeting via Skype...
> I have had problems using it but I'll solve them surely.
> 
> See you!