Canada, Jan. 25, 1998 - A global chat on the World Wide Web was staged by several Internet users who hailed from the beautiful and small village of Paete, Laguna, home of famous international woodcarvers.
On-line participants were Gunnar and Elena (Cagahastian) Emausson in France, Peter Ramos in New Jersey, Fely Casilag Burgdorfer and son Christoph in Switzerland, Lee Quesada and Jun Eimperio in Toronto and Virgil Madrinan in New Jersey. The event was an Internet Seminar for would-be "Paetenians on the Net" hosted and presented by PHNO-Newsflash webmaster, Rey Q. Carolino. The Paetenians on-line enjoyed live (real time) Chat Sessions yesterday afternoon using several communications programs like Audio-Video NetMeeting, ICQ, IRC, Instant Messenger, etc.
The participants had a good time watching the chat sessions. The transcript of the keyboard chats will appear at the Paetenians Mailing List today to be shared by the more than 50 Paetenians already on the Internet around the world, including from the Philippines.
"We were able to do an audio chat with Gunnar and Elena from France, just outside of Paris, Christoph from Berne, Switzerland and Jun from Toronto, Canada. We were also able to have a video conference with Jun- and also played a little tic tac toe with him using the whiteboard of Netmeeting. We were supposed to have a video conference with Christoph and Fely but his video didn't work. Something went wrong also with my camcorder here so we were unable to show them our video", said Rey.
The seminar was held in the condominium Meeting Room of Ely Cahatol Candelaria in Scarborough, Ontario. Rey presented the seminar through a rented In-Focus projection panel which projected his computer monitor to a wide screen- just like in a theater. Prelude to the seminar, while waiting for the participants to show up (Filipino time!)- a video tape of the Paetenians '97 Christmas Party was played on the wide screen.
"I just realized, maybe I should have connected myself to Netmeeting while we were playing the video so that the Netchatters with Netmeeting could have watched what we were watching at that time. Ah, well next time!" The host mused afterwards.
The Paetenians International is hosting its '98 Global Summit meeting to be held in Paete, Laguna this coming August 12 to 15, 1998. Depending on the Internet technology in Laguna and Manila, a Paetenian Internet Conference during the summit is being considered. And it will probably be via Netmeeting or ICQ. Paete is a 5-minute drive from Pagsanjan Falls (Rapids) and is reached from Manila via Alabang, Calamba and Sta Cruz, Laguna. Also the home of "sweet lanzones" situated between the Sierra Madre Mountains and the Laguna lakes.(Reported from Canada by Lee Quesada)
Reported by: Sol Jose Vanzi
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