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TheVerge: Why Slack could be the future of conferences
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Oct. 5, 2015

Oct. 5, 2015

http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/18/9349425/slack-future-of-conferences-xoxo-… Excerpts: "...at the XOXO Festival...I saw a new app remaking the conference experience in more ways than I could count. And the app, strangely enough, is Slack..... ....Here’s how it played out at XOXO Festival, the 4-year-old creative playground curated by internet heroes Andy Baio and Andy McMillan. The Andys, as they are collectively known, bring together comic-book artists, web developers, musicians, designers, startup CEOs, and other creative types to discuss the challenges and triumphs of making things independently, online and off. They limit attendance to about 1,000 people chosen through a lottery; the people who attend include many of the forward-thinking types you once found at South By Southwest. And this year, more than a month before the festival, they created a Slack team that anyone attending was free to join.... By the time XOXO got underway, attendees had created more than 150 channels to discuss and organize around nearly every topic imaginable. The most widely read channels were "the commons," where the Andys posted news about the festival relevant to all attendees. But subgroups formed in a hurry. There were channels for discussing accessibility; channels for singles and the polyamorous; channels for people interested in cannabis; channels for attendees who identify as LGBT. Some channels had dozens of members; others had 10 or fewer. The result was that by the time many attendees arrived in Portland, there was already a subset of their fellow festival-goers waiting to greet them. And throughout the three days of XOXO, Slack was a thriving hub of conversation, offering a place for attendees to encourage and congratulate speakers, ask questions about the event’s code of conduct, and find like-minded souls with whom to sneak out and grab a beer, or a bite, or whatever." Dev Anand

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Research into automated captioning systems
by Gunela Astbrink Oct. 5, 2015

Oct. 5, 2015

This research from Japan into automated captioning systems could be useful in future for other non-English languages where manual captioning is needed because of the limited availability of speech recognition software: http://phys.org/news/2015-09-automatic-subtitling-trialed-academic-conferen… -- Gunela Astbrink GSA InfoComm PO Box 600 Ballina NSW 2478 Australia Mobile: +61 417 715738 Email: g.astbrink(a)gsa.com.au www.gsa.com.au

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Skype Translator features coming to regular Skype desktop users
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Oct. 1, 2015

Oct. 1, 2015

http://blogs.skype.com/2015/10/01/skype-translator-unveils-the-magic-to-mor… Updated https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Skype+Translator+Preview

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Updated Translation Tools on the wiki
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Oct. 1, 2015

Oct. 1, 2015

Added https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Document+Translator https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Microsoft+Outlook to https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Translation+Tools Are you aware of any other tools that can be used for translation? Add them to https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Translation+Tools Kind Regards Dev Anand Teelucksingh

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Re: [technology taskforce] Skype is currently experiencing some connectivity issues (September 21 2015, 15:00 UTC)
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Sept. 21, 2015

Sept. 21, 2015

An update from Skype at 1500 UTC "We have identified the network issue which prevented users from logging in and using Skype today. We're in the process of reconnecting our users, and focused on restoring full service. The issue did not affect Skype for Business users." Dev Anand On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm Skype is currently experiencing some connectivity issues: > http://heartbeat.skype.com/2015/09/skype_presence_issues.html > > "We have detected an issue that is affecting Skype in a number of ways. > > If you're signed in to Skype, you will not be able to change your status > and your contacts will all show as offline even if they are online. As a > result, you won’t be able to start Skype calls to them.. > > A small number of messages to group chats are not being delivered, but in > most cases you can still instant message your contacts.. > > If you aren’t signed in to Skype, you may be experiencing difficulty when > attempting to sign in. Any changes to your Skype account such as your > Credit balance or your profile details might take a little while to be > displayed.. > > You may also have difficulty loading web pages on the Skype Community. For > that reason, please check back here for future updates." > > > >

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Skype is currently experiencing some connectivity issues (September 21 2015, 11:00 UTC)
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Sept. 21, 2015

Sept. 21, 2015

Hmm Skype is currently experiencing some connectivity issues: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2015/09/skype_presence_issues.html "We have detected an issue that is affecting Skype in a number of ways. If you're signed in to Skype, you will not be able to change your status and your contacts will all show as offline even if they are online. As a result, you won’t be able to start Skype calls to them.. A small number of messages to group chats are not being delivered, but in most cases you can still instant message your contacts.. If you aren’t signed in to Skype, you may be experiencing difficulty when attempting to sign in. Any changes to your Skype account such as your Credit balance or your profile details might take a little while to be displayed.. You may also have difficulty loading web pages on the Skype Community. For that reason, please check back here for future updates."

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Reminder - At-Large Technology Taskforce 21 September 2015
by ICANN At-Large Staff Sept. 20, 2015

Sept. 20, 2015

Dear All, The next At-Large Technology Taskforce call is scheduled on Monday 21 September 2015 at 1400 UTC. Please be aware that there will be NO interpretation on this call. Adobe Connect room:http://icann.adobeconnect.com/atlargetechtaskforce/ For other times:http://tinyurl.com/pd5duah The agenda and call details are available at: https://community.icann.org/x/lI1YAw Wiki Workspace:https://community.icann.org/x/FpfbAQ If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at:staff@atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>. Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge>atlarge<https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge> Twitter: @<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge>ICANNAtLarge<https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge>

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Meeting Invitation: At-Large Technology Taskforce 21 September 2015
by staff＠atlarge.icann.org Sept. 20, 2015

Sept. 20, 2015

Dear All, The next At-Large Technology Taskforce call is scheduled on Monday 21 September 2015 at 1400 UTC. Please be aware that there will be NO interpretation on this call. Adobe Connect room:http://icann.adobeconnect.com/atlargetechtaskforce/ <http://icann.adobeconnect.com/atlargetechtaskforce/> For other times:http://tinyurl.com/pd5duah The agenda (to be updated) and call details are available at: https://community.icann.org/x/lI1YAw Wiki Workspace:https://community.icann.org/x/FpfbAQ If you require a dial-out please contact At-Large staff at:staff@atlarge.icann.org. Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC E-mail: staff(a)atlarge.icann.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/icann <https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge> atlarge <https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge> Twitter: @ <https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge> ICANNAtLarge <https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge>

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Adobe has posted details about the upcoming Adobe Connect 9.5
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Sept. 15, 2015

Sept. 15, 2015

http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2015/09/introducing-adobe-connect-9-5.h… Dev Anand

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Demo of Microsoft auto translate/caption plugin for Google Chrome
by Dev Anand Teelucksingh Sept. 8, 2015

Sept. 8, 2015

Via Joly Macfie, on the Skype At-Large Chat "here's an interesting demo I shot last week of a forhcoming Microsoft auto translate/caption chrome plugin https://youtu.be/fccsexIGqHs?t=2639 " Looks very interesting. We should test and add to https://community.icann.org/display/atlarge/Translation+Tools Great find, Joly Dev Anand

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