<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On 08-Sep-2010, at 2:32 AM, Ginger Paque <<a href="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com">gpaque@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font face="Verdana">Does anyone else have a solution/technique they use or suggest to
implement this communication?<br></font></div></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 35, 163);"><br></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 35, 163);">Yes, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), the oldest but still most widely-used Internet chat protocol, and - unlike Skype - an open, non-proprietary standard.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 35, 163);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 35, 163);">The official IGF IRC channel is #igf on the Freenode network (ie. <a href="http://chat.freenode.net">chat.freenode.net</a>). Language-specific channels #igf-fr, #igf-es etc. also exist, and anyone can request the administrator (me) to set up channels with special features such as moderation. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 35, 163);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 35, 163);">Free IRC clients are available for every computing platform (just search Google), and a Web based interface is also available at <a href="http://igf-online.net/chat.php">http://igf-online.net/chat.php</a>.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 35, 163);"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 35, 163);">This facility has been available since 2007, but there are usually only a small group of us online. This year I'd like to see many more, so please join in! You'll find it a much more pleasant alternative to Skype.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></span></div></body></html>