[JDEV] Videoconferencingwithjabber/Re:[speex-dev]Videoconferencing with speex and jabber

[Richard Dobson]

> > Other people have been talking about video and you did say and i quote
"It
> > gets a big deal when you include video" so you did infact mention video.
FYI
> > to me audio conferencing means multiple people talking together to each
> > other and everyone can hear what everyone else says, what do you mean by
> > audio conferencing then?
> >
> Richard,
>
> I am differentiating between chat and conferencing. Chat is informal, no
> particular structure, agenda or goal, social or professional, people come
> and go with no particular leader. Conferences tend to be ;-) structured,
> formal, have a goal and an agenda and stop when the chairman leaves.

Yes this is the literal meaning of conference, but ive found when this kind
of voice chat technology is mentioned the words chat and conference tend to
be used interchangably (whether it is correct or not is another matter
though of course). It is most likely because conference sounds much more
business oriented to the marketing people whereas the actual technology they
are describing is just bog standard chat.

> This is why I say we should be careful on naming - 'conferencing' implies
a
> different envelope to 'chat'.

Ok then at least I know where you are coming from on this point now, thanks.

Richard