Brainstorm: How about a "live" online competition?

I have heard of Skype, but I haven't used it in the last couple of years.

How many simultaneous video users does it support (I remember some discussions about an Intel-sponsoring leading to more users on Intel cpu's than on AMD cpu's a couple of years ago)

Do you have any actual experience with Skype and >2 simultaneous video users? And if so, could you post a short tutorial on how to set that up?
 
Skype is capable of supporting up to 10 people in a conference call. (I do have experience with Skype.)

I mistyped something earlier in this post. Skype can only have 2 people via a video conference.

Here is a short tutorial on how to set everything up.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sodMDs7rEEk

Hope it helps.
 
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Avgalen,

"ooVoo" might be a better 'free' alternative to Skype.

It allows up to 6 people to have a video conference and has a pretty nice user interface from what I've seen

www.oovoo.com
 
I would love to compete with JNetCube, both for the competition and just for fun, I haven't yet tried it. I don't have webcam or stuff like that.

So if anyone wants to, tell me and we can race on JNetCube, again my AIM is natmcAoPS
 
This channels is still alive
http://www.freejavachat.com/chat.php?chan=Rubik
many webpage what goes about speedcubing has this link on there web site
many people join and part the channel
talk and race diffrent puzzles to gether amost everyday

get a scramble in the channel just type for example:
.3
and you will get a scramble for the 3x3
there are more commands like:.2 .3 .4 .5 and more
also you can add time to a database there like
!time -3 9.77
and the time 9.77 will be added in your 3x3 database
to get your stats just type !stats -3 and you will see you stats for the 3x3
for the 4x4 just like this !stats -4

i think you get the picture.Just join the channel and idle for a while people will drop in and chat , race , explaine with you.

and question about command for the channel ask

Alexander
tomasu
Pjgat09
chrisb

or any one else.

see you all in channel maybe if the timezone is right
 
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Lotsofsloths said:
i can make an IRC?


EDIT:irc://irc.freenode.net/speedsolving.com

Goto mozilla, tools, chatzilla, then type: /join speedsolving.com, type /commands, and have fun :)
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like joey said there is channel i think total people that join and part
is around 50 maybe more most of the time there are avg 15 people
in there chatting racing etc..

just united on one irc server and channel and have fun together

A.O.
 
Alexander said:
This channels is still alive
http://www.freejavachat.com/chat.php?chan=Rubik
many webpage what goes about speedcubing has this link on there web site
many people join and part the channel
talk and race diffrent puzzles to gether amost everyday

get a scramble in the channel just type for example:
.3
and you will get a scramble for the 3x3
there are more commands like:.2 .3 .4 .5 and more
also you can add time to a database there like
!time -3 9.77
and the time 9.77 will be added in your 3x3 database
to get your stats just type !stats -3 and you will see you stats for the 3x3
for the 4x4 just like this !stats -4

i think you get the picture.Just join the channel and idle for a while people will drop in and chat , race , explaine with you.

and question about command for the channel ask

Alexander
tomasu
Pjgat09
chrisb

or any one else.

see you all in channel maybe if the timezone is right
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I always get an "error connecting"
 
How do you connect??

you click on the link or you use an irc client??

when you connect to the server, what i think on port 6667
could be your firewall blocking the connection??

if you have something like mirc you can connect to
server: irc.ircstorm.net
channel: #rubik

A.O.
 
This just landed in my emailbox. I think this is exactly what we need for an online competition:

Hello everybody,

I recently discovered a very nice webpage, that has a chatbox, but
also has the possibility of camming with many users at the same time,
and actually talk and discuss things over the mic... I have done this
with larger groups of ppl, and it really feels like you are having
a 'meeting'. And since meetings with cubers are usually nice, I
thought it would be nice to invite you guys!

Maybe some of you know it, maybe not: www.stickam.com.

I made a chatroom called 'cubers'. If any of you would like to come
and check it out, that would be very nice.

See you!

- Joël.
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Oooh, this is a good idea (sorry I haven't read the whole thread, but I get the general idea). Lol at the idea of a "cube meeting" over webcams :p .
 
philkt731 said:
Alexander said:
This channels is still alive
http://www.freejavachat.com/chat.php?chan=Rubik
many webpage what goes about speedcubing has this link on there web site
many people join and part the channel
talk and race diffrent puzzles to gether amost everyday

get a scramble in the channel just type for example:
.3
and you will get a scramble for the 3x3
there are more commands like:.2 .3 .4 .5 and more
also you can add time to a database there like
!time -3 9.77
and the time 9.77 will be added in your 3x3 database
to get your stats just type !stats -3 and you will see you stats for the 3x3
for the 4x4 just like this !stats -4

i think you get the picture.Just join the channel and idle for a while people will drop in and chat , race , explaine with you.

and question about command for the channel ask

Alexander
tomasu
Pjgat09
chrisb

or any one else.

see you all in channel maybe if the timezone is right
Click to expand...
I always get an "error connecting"
Click to expand...
Try the applet at strangepuzzle.com/chat.php
 
Copying Erik's format...

0) We can use Stickam.comI say Stickam.com
1) I want to participate
2) I think all of the things are good, but I really want to have a blind event.
3) After the lsat person finishes he/she will say !scramble.
4) I think we should have a survey for times available for every cuber, then take it from there.
5) :D (why would I change that comment. It's the exact same way I felt.)
6) How?
7) Maybe we could have it like once a month or something like that. I don't know.
8) Make a schedule.
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