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"We are a team of about
20 developers in 7 countries: Belgium, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary,
Poland, Slovenia, and UK. We have successfully worked together at
the construction of a pan-European federation of learning resource
repositories by organizing a three-day face-to-face meeting, then
having regular flashmeetings during 4 months."
Coordinator 'Callibrate'
EU funded project, 2007
"As coordinators of
WP3 of the CALIBRATE project, we've found FlashMeeting to be an
excellent tool to keep our various partners in sync. The main part
of our work is the development of a collaborative authoring environment
for EU teachers, and the development team is split into four EU
countries. Therefore communication between these
partners is of utmost importance, and we've used FlashMeeting as
an integral part of our communication arsenal..."
Coordinator of WP3 of 'Callibrate'
EU funded project, 2007
"Now, for more than
a year, we have been using FlashMeeting in the European CALIBRATE
project. We are mainly using FlashMeeting to coordinate software
development of the LeMill with developers in Helsinki, Tallinn,
Budapest and Oslo. For LeMill developers we also have a 24/7 IRC
channel (#lemill / freenode), mailing lists and a trac website -
an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system. FlashMeetings is not
replacing any of these tools but is still very important tool in
our project communication. Seeing and hearing people are good.
Also related to CALIBRATE project I have been testing FlashMeeting
in one online course I am teaching right now. At first we were using
the Skype conference call and Skypcast. Both failed. FlashMeeting
works and it works well!"
Teemu Leinonen, 28 March 2007, FLOSSE
Posse blog
"Flashmeeting made
it possible for us to really see and hear each other without
having to travel...
...EuroPACE started to use and promote Flashmeeting in all
its projects because of the mix of user friendliness and
good quality...
EuroPACE has used Flashmeeting in its projects for bi-monthly
partner meetings. It helped us to get an overview of what
each partner has been doing and it also contributed to the
good atmosphere in all the projects. We also used flashmeeting
sometimes for real "work meetings" in
the sense that project results have been discussed in-depth
through flashmeeting."
Coordinator EuroPace, 2007
"It is a pleasure
for me to report that the use of the flashmeeting tool
has been a complete success
for our community. The tool, in particular for what regards
the speaking turns feature, has shown to be the perfect instrument
for managing meeting with more than 3-4 participants."
Coordinator 'EMIL'
EU funded project, 2007
"We are very happy
with flashmeeting and we find it so useful that we start
to prefer it to face-to-face
meetings...so our feedback will be very positive, I have
also recommended it to many colleagues who are running projects."
Coordinator 'LT4eL' EU
funded project, 2007
"My personal experience of all the meetings
in which I have been involved is overwhelmingly positive.
From a technical point of view, the performance of the FM
facility has been exemplary and, if there have been problems,
these have found their solution at the user's end. Not once
has a meeting been interrupted or its quality downgraded
for other reasons."
Regular participant in U3A FlashMeetings, 2007
"From my point of view, as coordinator of the
project, I would like to accentuate that the use of FlashMeeting
is very important to keep a geographically dispersed partnership
working and collaborating, especially in between the face-to-face
meetings. Collaboration within dispersed project-partners
usually tends to slow down in the time between face-to-face
meetings. To see and talk to each other increases the sense
of commitment and improves the collaboration within a dispersed
project-partnership.. In the project eLSe we managed to collaborate
very intensively despite the fact that we only met once a
year. The use of FlashMeeting helped us to develop one of
the best-evaluated projects in the context of Socrates Minerva."
Coordinator 'eLSe' EU funded
project, 2007
"The MACE consortium
has been using FlashMeeting as meeting tool for weekly
project conferences. Besides email
and personal meetings, FlashMeeting has become one of the
pillars of project communication. The system is super-easy
to use in all three phases: before, during and after a video
conference.
Before, it allows you to book a conference through a web
page - no paper work or management hassle. During the conference,
one has access to additional chat, voting mechanism, file
sharing and much more. Afterwards, you can playback the whole
conference in case you missed something. And all that though
your web browser! That's right, no additional software is
required, no firewall configuration or long setup procedure.
Just run your browser and jump right into video conferencing
with FlashMeeting.
The thing I personally like most about the system is the "Broadcast" button,
which prevents several people speaking at once and works
as moderator. Compare this to standard phone conferences...
Because of that (and tons of other stuff), FlashMeeting is
really great."
Technical Coordinator 'MACE'
EU
funded
project, 2007
"The EU Minerva
Blend-XL project has been using Flashmeeting for over a year
now. In that time there have been a dozen or more online meetings.
Flashmeeting has served us really well and the general impression
among the project team is that it is a very fine tool. Ease
of use, uncluttered interface, clever features, handy recordings
of text chat, sound, video and other registered data for replay
or analysis - they all contribute greatly to the user experience."
Coordinator 'Blend-XL'
EU funded project, 2007
"Flashmeeting - "better
than the rest"
Flashmeeting at first glance seems to be the best video conference
facility for schools. Ever.
184 schools across Europe are using Flashmeeting to collaborate
using only the web, a webcam and... that's it. There's no need for
any download to your computer. The video conferences are recordable,
saveable, publishable. So are the chats. And the audio. You see,
the audio is displayed as a separate Audacity-like track which you
can edit and play with afterwards..."
Ewan McIntosh, Teacher and Social Media Specialist, Blog
entry, February 24, 2007 |