mrdct Posted May 31, 2005 Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 At the World Youth Teams Championship in Sydney in August 2005, during the round-robin phase the BBO coverage will be single table coverage from at least two and hopefully three separate matches each round. In previous major championships, BBO coverage of matches involving non-English speaking countries with high BBO membership has had English commentary in the open room and non-English coverage in the closed room. Such splitting of the commentary wont be possible until the knock-out matches in Sydney. It would be a nice service to vugraph fans to have an unofficial chat channel running simulataneous to the BBO presentation in which commentary can be undertaken in a non-English languages. Such unofficial chat channels could also be used for the controversial "free-for-all" commentary. Ideally the software or website that runs the chat channel will need to be free and easy to install. Optimally, it would be purely web-based (perhaps java-based) and not require complex registration or burden viewers will lots of pop-ups. Does anyone know of any suitable products out there that might be able to deliver this sort of functionality? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted May 31, 2005 Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 I use TeamSpeak software with two of my students, one of them in Brazil the other in Kansas City. It works rather well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csdenmark Posted May 31, 2005 Report Share Posted May 31, 2005 That kind of features looks a bit more restricted than I thought when I informed of such in another thread for chat for everyone. I think it is because of the discussion about sex-abuses. But I think the most simple way is chat rooms in communities. Yahoo has similar communities and facilities. It looks to me that only 1 chat room is available for each community - but then just open more new communities. I think they have as well WEB-cam facilities + speaking but right now I cannot find them. I have enabled the chat room in my community bridgeFILES for you to test. http://groups.msn.com/bridgeFILES/chatroom.msnw I assume you will need to sign up before you can use it here: http://groups.msn.com/bridgeFILES/join Then just chat away! ---------------Another simple way of course including all facilities is to all to connect to a Messenger. But that is best for a group knowing each other. -------------------I found 2 chat room free software - here the info: http://www.das-download-archiv.de/download.php?id=360http://www.das-download-archiv.de/download.php?id=1211 I dont know them------------------These below looks just perfect. Simple and free - ready to use with no registrations. http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Chat_Services/ http://www.freejavachat.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrdct Posted June 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 Thanks for the reply Claus, but what I am really looking for is something that the BBO vugraph audience can simply click-on after the link is mentioned in the official commentary that will take them straight to a chat channel in their java-enabled web browser where all they need to do is enter a temporary name and away they go. The chat window will also need to be resizable so that the BBO windown can still be seen. It may need to be hosted on an external site somewhere and would need to be capable of having up to 500 people or so (possibly more) in the channel at one time. I wonder if the BBO Poland people might be interested in putting this sort functionality up on their website during the World Youth Teams Championship, given that Poland must be one of the favourites and will surely be receiving quite a bit of BBO coverage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 TeamSpeak and Ventrilo are two "obvious" choices for such a service. Both applications have significant followings in the online gaming community where an active voice channel is an essential tool to coordinate raids and "dungeon crawls" in real time. Both applications are based off of client and server side components. End users download and configure clients on their local PCs. Someone needs to provide a server that will be used as a separate hub. As I understand matters, both the client and the server side applications are free... With this said and done, its unclear whether BBO would necessarily want to provide an audio feed. 1. I don't believe that audio commentary ads much to a bridge match. I believe that text is a better format for describing bridge hands. In particular, the ability to rewind the comnversation is extremely useful. 2. I don't think that TeamSpeak or Ventrillo can handle the load associated with a large VuGraph. Ventrillo really starts to bog down once you have 35 or so simultaneous connections. 3. Potentially, the best course of action would be some independant experimentation. A small group could easily download the necessary software and establish a parallel audio Vugraph. This pilot program could be used to validate customer demand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted June 1, 2005 Report Share Posted June 1, 2005 If someone want to fool around w/this and find us appropriate software I'm willing to install it on one of our boxes to see what happens for at least one or 2 vugraphs. I'm assuming we're talking about text chat and applets (ie, no client side installation) U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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