A high-bandwidth virtual office for open teams. Public rooms are free. Private rooms cost. FOSS.

Think of it as IRC for infrastructure, Sqwiggle for Interface, Google Hangouts on Air for recording, and GitHub for profiles.

• In-person communication is the ultimate thing, it's high bandwidth, engages all the senses, and is immediate and personal
• Other communication tools for the open-source world (like IRC, GitHub Issues, etc) are low-bandwidth, interruptive, inpersonal, and frustrating
• Video communication tools (like Skype, Google Hangouts, Sqwiggle) are not catered to open-source project's infinitely large teams and requirement to open-source everything
• Communication tools (like Skype) had too much over-head, you had to arrange meetings, schedule times, across many time-zones, with many remote workers, delaying progress in the mean-time, often in an never-ending loop
• Other communication tools (like Skype, Google Hangouts, Sqwiggle, GitHub Issues, etc) are closed, giving the people no power to create their ideal experiences

• People log in to Interconnect
• Their video is made available, so people can see your availability
• If you are busy, you mark yourself as busy so others can't interrupt you
• If you are interupptable, people can click you (and others) to start an instant (group) video call
• There is a text chat on the left for asynchronous communication and sharing resources
• It is open-source, so you can tweak it to work best for your requirements

• Consultants, Trainers, and Experts no longer need to fly around the world to assist co-workers in their office
  • Instead they can join the virtual office, which is just as good, if not better, than the real office
• Remote open-source teams now finally have access to high-bandwidth communication

I've suggested it countless times, they are not interested.

Plus it misses the opportunity to create the next generation de-facto standard communicational tool, as an open-source initiative that everyone has power and control over.

1. @balupton joins the #docpad IRC Channel via InterConnect
2. The InterConnect IRC Bot posts on the #docpad IRC Channel: @balupton just joined via http://interconnect.net/docpad
3. @crito joins the #docpad IRC Channel via InterConnect
4. The InterConnect IRC Bot posts on the #docpad IRC Channel: @crito just joined via http://interconnect.net/docpad
5. @balupton unmutes @crito to start a call
6. The InterConnect IRC Bot posts on the #docpad IRC Channel: @balupton and @crito are now video calling on http://interconnect.net/docpad/balupton+crito
7. @ninabreznik was on IRC and notices the video call link, she clicks it and joins
8. The InterConnect IRC Bot posts on the #docpad IRC Channel: @balupton, @crito, @ninabreznik are now video calling on http://interconnect.net/docpad/balupton+crito+ninabreznik
9. @balupton posts a link to an image in the InterConnect chat
10. The InterConnect chat enhances it on the InterConnect website to embed the actual image
11. The InterConnect IRC Bot posts on the #docpad IRC Channel: @balupton just posted: http://the.url/to-the.image
12. The video call finishes, and is uploaded to Vimeo for archival
13. The InterConnect IRC Bot posts on the #docpad IRC Channel: @balupton, @crito, @ninabreznik video call just finished, watch it here: http://interconnect.net/docpad/call-id

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