RE: iSociety chat

["albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> In my opinion, it is inappropriate to expect a customer to "sponsor" this
and "host" SameTime or LiveMeeting on their system.

Sponsoring gets easy when you let the situation get creative.  For example
how many of the vendors reading this would be willing to pay $100 to have a
short 10 second splash page at the beginning of the chat proclaiming their
product?  A lot I would guess.  The problem is that it takes planning (i.e.
who sets up the WebEx, pays the bill, line up sponsors, etc) and if Trevor
is willing to do that I am sure we can get it paid for.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark S. Waterbury
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:47 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: iSociety chat

Trevor:

In my opinion, it is inappropriate to expect a customer to "sponsor" 
this and "host" SameTime or LiveMeeting on their system.
(Just consider the security issues of opening up access and firewalls, etc.)

Since this obviously benefits IBM Corp., I think IBM should provide this
service and host it (at no charge) on one of their big servers.

That's my opinion.

Mark S. Waterbury

> Trevor Perry wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Thanks for your complaint. We appreciate the feedback.
>
> All the ideas suggested are great. Will any of you have the time to 
> devote to regular fireside chats and provide the resources to run 
> SameTime or LiveMeeting? It would be great to find a sponsor! It would 
> be great to find some people to volunteer to run these chats!
>
> Anybody?
>
> I can connect you to the right people if you are willing.
>
> Trevor
> ~~~~~~
>
>
>
>
> On 8/15/07 2:06 PM, "rob@xxxxxxxxx" <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > Is that chat going on now supposed to have audio and visual?  I am in 
> > there and so far all I see is text based chat stuff.  How boring is 
> > that for a discussion on a graphical tool?
> >
> > Rob Berendt
> >     
>
>
>   
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