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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...
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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!
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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

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