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- | + | '''Q:''' What meetings are available?<br> | |
- | '''A:''' | + | '''A:''' As of 3-September-2009, the collection consists of 42 meetings pertaining to shared governance at [http://www.psu.edu The Pennsylvania State University], 15 sessions from the [http://openvideoconference.org Open Video Conference], 3 sessions from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wiki-Conference_2009 Wiki-Conference 2009], and 1 plenary from [http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org Wikimania 2006]. New meetings are being added on a continual basis and [[OMwiki:Submissions|video submissions]] are welcome. |
+ | All meetings are hosted on the Internet Archive and are available for browsing and/or download. The vast majority of the content is non-transcribed, although official minutes may be available. | ||
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- | '''A:''' The logo is adopted from [http://www.archive.org/details/manualofstenogra00bart a 19<sup>th</sup> century Caligraph ad] published by The American Writing Machine Co. | + | '''Q:''' What's the story behind the logo?<br> |
+ | '''A:''' The logo is adopted from [http://www.archive.org/details/manualofstenogra00bart a 19<sup>th</sup> century Caligraph ad] published by The American Writing Machine Co., as "Type Writer" was a Remington brand name at the time. The ad reads: | ||
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<tt>The "CALIGRAPH" is the only writing machine that fully economizes time and labor, and economy of time and labor is the best reason we know for soliciting trade.</tt> | <tt>The "CALIGRAPH" is the only writing machine that fully economizes time and labor, and economy of time and labor is the best reason we know for soliciting trade.</tt> | ||
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- | The logo is not trademarked and represents more of | + | "OPEN MEETINGS" has been substituted ''via'' [http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP] and [http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape] for the original lettering of "CALIGRAPH". The logo is not trademarked and represents more of a methodology than a brand identity. |
- | + | '''Q:''' I'm having bandwidth issues.<br> | |
- | '''A:''' | + | '''A:''' High-speed internet connections originating from Penn State University, Pittsburgh, Virgina, Washington D.C., and surrounding areas should have excellent connectivity. Visitors outside of this core coverage area may experience delayed playback; options including a content delivery network, local seek from pre-downloaded meetings, and audio-only playback are under development. |
- | + | '''Q:''' Is there a way to view video using native playback in Safari?<br> | |
- | '''A:''' Please | + | '''A:''' Yes! Please install [http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ XiphQT], which also provides export to Ogg Theora from any QuickTime-based application. |
- | + | '''Q:''' What about iPhone support? <br> | |
- | '''A:''' | + | '''A:''' You will be able to view wikipages and transcripts, but video playback and JavaScript-based navigation are broken. Additionally, device bandwidth is generally not sufficient to load the [[visual finding aid]]. |
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'''A:''' Please [http://openmeetings.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=OMwiki:FAQ login], click [http://openmeetings.org/w/index.php?title=OMwiki:FAQ&action=edit edit], then list your question after a blank '''Q:'''. | '''A:''' Please [http://openmeetings.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=OMwiki:FAQ login], click [http://openmeetings.org/w/index.php?title=OMwiki:FAQ&action=edit edit], then list your question after a blank '''Q:'''. | ||
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