Hi,

I like to bring this idea up even as I of today not even know if we
would be able to participate:

Think of that you will be able to have webcams on every continent on
many places - most interestingly link places in the same time zone or at
least with some overlapping - visitors can walk by and wave each other
like Europa<->Australia or USA<->Brazil - one also might include some
sound. Maybe we can at least think of a good software solution to do that.

I think this could be fun and also intersting and only be able because
this is an event which happens on many places. It could eben show what
you can do with free software and also show how far the ideas are reaching.

I was thinking about if VLC would be a good solution and how to decide
who links to whom. I think one way would be to make a wiki page where
groups could list when they plan to have a webcam online and then we can
sort the cams by time and not by country /continent. It would also be
possible to dedicate more than oen computer on a location as a link
station and just put a sign with the city name besides the screen. It
could maybe also help people to get to know each other - lets say you
have two schools and maybe those two schools get a link they could even
reactivate evcery now and then.

Personally I havent done much in video conferencing but wanted to share
this idea so that you could think about it and maybe this could be one
thing which could be grown as a part of next years SFD. And it wouldn't
be something each group only does for themselves but really do a
worldwide link.

Regards,

Thilo

KiLux, (Kiel, Germany)

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