Thread Subject: Re: Beyond the Calendar

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From: Bailey Bruce
Date: Thu, Oct 12 2006 9:00 AM

We (Jared, Jim, Mike, myself) heard back from Judy. Zakim is still a
possible option for facilitating teitac.org conference calls. Jared is
following-up on the technical feasibility. Ping me (or Jared or Jim or
Mike or Judy) off-list if you want more details.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of
> Jessica Brodey
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:41 AM
> To: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ; = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] Beyond the Calendar
>
> I think an email to the conveners/chairs explaining what to
> do, how to use it might help, asking them to mail to the
> listserve, post meetings, register for an id, edit the
> subcommittee wiki, put their member companies up, asking
> subcommittee members to signup for the listserve and send out
> the link to do so. I know several of the conveners have not
> done this and are moving ahead w/ subcommittee meetings w/o guidance.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregg Vanderheiden
> Date: 10/11/06 10:22 am
> To: 'TEITAC Communications Task Force'
> Subj: Re: [teitac-tools] Beyond the Calendar
>
> HMmmm
>
> It wasn't me who was looking at using W3C tools. It was Judy
> Brewer I believe. But in a call yesterday I heard her say (I
> think) that the W3C
> tools could NOT be used. Bruce you might want to call Judy
> and get the
> right answer - but I thought that is what I heard. I
> hadn't seen this
> email at the time so I didn't note the comment carefully so I could be
> wrong. But I remember being disappointed.
>
> (PS I had also wanted to use their survey tool for other
> standards work - or get a copy of it to post other places but
> was unable. That is a VERY useful
> piece of software as well). Bruce, have you ever seen
> anything else like
> that?
>
> Gregg
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
> > [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Bailey
> > Bruce
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 3:43 AM
> > To: TEITAC Communications Task Force
> > Subject: [teitac-tools] Beyond the Calendar
> >
> > We (the Access Board staff) had a meeting about this yesterday
> > afternoon.
> >
> > Conference calls will probably be too unruly to be
> interactive without
> > queue management. Gregg is looking into using the W3C
> Zakim software
> > for that. Jared is also working developing queuing software.
> >
> > Fed RCC can be used to make teleconferences accessible
> between 8am and
> > 5pm EST.
> >
> > There are free teleconferencing services available. If
> anyone feels
> > they cannot participate because of the cost of making a non
> toll-free
> > call, David Capozzi is willing to have the Board reimburse them for
> > their expenses.
> >
> > Jessica, I think I have hit all your points below. The one
> exception
> > is getting committee members comfortable with using the
> listserv and
> > Wiki. Does anyone have ideas about addressing this need?

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