Hoi, When you use Skype, this is true for several of the other VOIP clients on offer as well, you will find that some allow for calling to landlines in many countries. The rates are a vast improvement on what you pay with POTS. For some countries there are VOIP services that provide a gratis service ..
The second issue you raise; insistence on only foreign people who VOIP as a bias.. even if this is a bias, it is not of the same magnitude as US residents only. When it is considered difficult to send a voucher abroad, you can give people some "Skype out" credit in stead ...
Please explain why the selection of only Skype/VOIP users would be such a bad thing.
Thanks, GerardM
http://www.voipbuster.com/nl/index.html http://skype.com/intl/nl/products/
On 3/22/07, Dag Asheim dash@linpro.no wrote:
GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com writes:
Hoi, Use skype if international phone call charges are an issue. Many people working on Wikipedia (and other wikis) use it intensively ..
I am sympatethic towards using Skype (or equivalent more open VoIP-standards) in general, but I'm afraid that setting Skype communication as a requirement for participation for interviewing will skew the respondents in much the same way that only interviewing US residents would.
-- Dag Asheim Linpro AS
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