Re: [tm-pubsubj] F2F at XML 2003

[Mary Nishikawa <nisikawa@fuchinobe.oilfield.slb.com>]

At 12:01 03/11/01 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>Mary,
>
>Just a quick note, more to follow later this weekend.
>
>Mary Nishikawa wrote:
>>*Patrick
><snip>
>
>>Of course, the best would be for somebody to sponsor a conference call 
>>from the hotel, but this is *very* expensive.
>
>Actually I am looking at a standard add-on for a cell-phone that makes 
>it a speaker phone. Since I have a conference call service (that works 
>after I dial in as host), don't know the rates on 1-800 international 
>service, I could dial into the service using a cell-phone and remote 
>attendees could dial into the conferrence call service.

Sounds great!  We all assume our own telephone charges outside the USA, 
but this is alway what we have done in the past. If you are sponsoring the 
conference call and paying for the cell phone connection as the host -- 
thank you, thank you, thank you!

>Upside is no hotel services required. Don't know about sound quality, 
>etc. but I will try to experiment with this before promising it for the meeting.
>
>If it works, and the if part is still unknown, might be a relatively 
>inexpensive way to do conference calls to increase the attendance at TC meetings.

Yes, we really do need this. I hope it works.

Cheers,
Mary