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last modified December 5, 2010 by facilitfsm

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 Let us Skype  in order to  prepare together  for Dakar Extended!


Skype software (which is not free software though) allows us to communicate freely by text, audio, or video with “contacts” around the world

  • Over 100 million people have a Skype username /account
  • Skype allows to hold remote meetings by audio and video, or participate in activities on enlarged the Internet from Dakar
  • Skype also allows to make contact and maintain flexibly contact to prepare those meetings!


It is therefore an essential communication tool for WSF/ Dakar extended - When a free software will present equivalent characteristics of simplicity and performance audio we will try to promote its use (see instructions here)

we expect from  every organizer of extended activity to have  a Skype user

see how to download and start skype

So , please Give your Skype user name in your message when you contact us

An Anglophone facilitator will ask you to accept his contact and will put you in a skype chat room related to your  extended activity preparation

When you are put in a skype chat room, it appears as a “conversation /action” in skype

It may come with a title already   "daket en7"    meaning  dakar extended  7th activity in english space ...You can rename It

you can add people in it (see button “add people”) - but only those with whom you are "in touch"

 

One skype chat Room for each dakar extended activity

The preparation of each activity can be "accompanied" by a permanent chat room  where those directly involved cooperate : at home, in Dakar, and elsewhere around the world, and facilitators  accompanying you

  • People in a chat room even remain  in flexible contact between them:
  • Those who are connected at the same time can speak and also write in live mode
  • What they write will stay in the room and will  be read by others when they will connect
  • The memory of all those inputs is common and may last several weeks- it can be easily copied in the text processor
  • it is easy to copy and paste links to  web pages,  that you may comment orally at the same time together


Thus one learns to use Skype while discussing and preparing to better define one’s activity -

We then make a full-scale video meeting before the WSF with the team dakar

And in February we are all conversant with Skype!

 

Use of skype for  your  Dakar activities enlarged on the internet

You circulate in your invitation  a public skype name and people interested to participate remotely  to your Dakar activity ask to be in contact with this skype name
You accept all those contacts and add them in a chat room (start with one and add the others )  in order to gather them in advance . They can add their own contacts so it can snowball

The room will be used for distance participation during the enlarged activity ,  to exchange comment along the video live stream, or to make inputs in the meeting that will be verbalized by the connectant person in dakar, in charge with remaining attend to what is being exchanged,and these text inputs will be an element of memory of the activity