Re: Conference calls with google talk? - Matthew Wilson - com.googlegroups.google-talk-open

3 messages in com.googlegroups.google-talk-openRe: Conference calls with google talk?

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aengus	01 Dec 2005 17:10
Paul Johnson	01 Dec 2005 18:20
Matthew Wilson	04 Dec 2005 08:13

Subject:	Re: Conference calls with google talk?
From:	Matthew Wilson (mw44...@gmail.com)
Date:	12/04/2005 08:13:47 AM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-talk-open

But conference calls and IM chat rooms are different.

wild speculation below:

The Google Talk for developers FAQ said that chat packets are a custom XMPP stanzas, so if and when the spec is released, it's not impossible to imagine that IM chat rooms could support conference calls and IM chat. Clients could output the type="voice" packets to the speakers and the type="chat" to the IM client window.

On 12/1/05, Paul Johnson <ba....@ursine.ca> wrote:

On Thursday 01 December 2005 05:10 pm, aengus wrote:

does google talk support conversations involving more than 2 people?

I don't know if Google Talk's server specifically does, but more generically, yes, Jabber has Multi-User Conference. I can usually be found in the conference m....@conference.ursine.ca