Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Interest for GM 2.00

[JGJones <mailgroups bluecheetah biz>]

Just wanted to say my bit :)

I'm profoundly deaf. Obviously I cannot use telephones. Technologies 
such as Skype is useless for me.

Videophone are of HUGE importance to me and many other Deaf people that 
converse in sign language. And there is actually very few quality 
solutions. However in the USA, the DLink DVC-1000 videophone is very 
very popular among the Deaf people there - because they can get them for 
free. Sadly I've not been able to get GnomeMeeting to work with them for 
some reason - any heads up on that would be nice.

Anyway my point is that with a lack of a good videophone solution (MSN 
Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger et al might do "video" - for a hearing 
person, seeing a face, albiet jerky might be fine, but for us sign 
language users - the smoothness of the video is of criticial 
importanance. Make it jerky and it become too hard to follow sign 
language. That is where MSN et al fails.

GnomeMeeting provide decent video rates to the point I can converse 
almost naturally in sign language.

So don't think that GnomeMeeting is becoming a thing of past. In my view 
when it comes to video - it's still much much in the present and many 
others are just playing catch up. I am eagarly looking forward to a 
Windows port and advising Mac users about the XMeeting - based on 
GnomeMeeting isn't it? For OSX.

Keep up the great work.

JGJones

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