ATTN: WEEF Planning Committee.  The next conference call will take place on 28 December, at 8:00am GMT-5:00.   Representatives from each program (GC, GEDC, IFEES, IACEE, GSF) should be prepared to give updates on individual program developments.

Via Subhash Kateel:

On January 1st, at least a half dozen of our mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers that have watched our lives and communities in South Florida be destroyed by the raids, detentions and deportation will take a crucial step to defend our communities.  In the spirit of sacrifice, with the memory of Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, they will Fast for OUR Families.  This fast is not just symbolic, although it is done in the name of all who have lost a loved one to deportation.  The Fast is done so that President Obama can hear the cry of those that are hungry for justice and for the unity of all of our families.

On December 31st, the members of Fast For Our Families will take their very last meal and will not eat again until the Obama administration agrees to use its executive authority to stop separating immigrant families until their is a resolution for our broken immigration system.  We also want President Obama to send his Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, to South Florida to talk to us directly about our struggle and why we need to take such a drastic step to get the administration’s attention.

Until this happens, the families that are Fasting will refuse all food.  And we ask all who have ever lost a loved one: a mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter or friend to the deportation process to join us in our struggle for all of OUR Families.

To find out how to support, please RSVP for the Conference Call this Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 11 am by emailing fastforfamilies@gmail.com

and please spread the word..

Google Voice on iPhone = no VoIP & no direct outbound. Vonage on iPhone = no inbound, at all. Half empty, half full…

Please tell me this rumor of Apple buying iCall – VoIP provider (iPhone app) is a joke. Another dead end in the app store!!

Wind Mobile wins over CRTC Ruling. Canada to see first new independent mobile operator in more than 10 years. http://ping.fm/KotOW

Vonage Mobile iPhone and iPod apps built by Truphone http://ping.fm/F9mwp

Testing new conference call bridge on our iPhone VoIP app via Wifi, sounds good!

In our May 13 blog, we introduced you to “Coffee with Women of Vision,” a conference call opportunity to join with like-minded women from all over the US for a great conversation. Women of Vision is delighted to announce our next Coffee date.

Women of Vision presents “Tales” from the Gift Catalog!  Call in and listen to stories about the miraculous changes your gifts can bring. Angela Mason and Marilee Pierce Dunker will share stories of how they have seen goats, wells, chickens, school supplies and other World Vision Gift Catalog gifts in action!

Do you have an inspirational story of how you or your family has used the Gift Catalog? How has giving to the catalog impacted your family? Marilee and Angela will invite you to share how giving to the Gift Catalog has impacted you during the Christmas season.

Join women nation-wide on this informative conference call.

Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009
Time: 7:30am PST/ 8:30am MST/ 9:30am CST/ 10:30am EST

RSVP: At this time we have a limited number of lines available for this nationwide call. Please reply to this post and we will email you the toll-free number and passcode. Friends are welcome!

HA!!! been on both ends of this thread, sadly RT @SherylBreuker: This must be the funniest email conversation ever http://ping.fm/UpVrz

Mini-review of Skype on N900 RT @jaanus: The main point of this video is that Nokia N900 is slow as hell. http://ping.fm/VzSOn

Good to see Joachim! Zoiper first 3rd party softphone to support Skype’s SILK, Polycom’s SIREN and Broadvoice codecs http://ping.fm/LRihv

#Square to displace traditional merchant process for small biz and personal transactions? Sounds very compelling. Canada? Likely not

Since no support for UDP = very few VoIP-ish apps, too bad RT @fellyph: Building iPhone Applications with Flash : http://bit.ly/8be2Jj

Let’s all erect walled gardens and live in a vacuum. RT @tomzer1: Congress Asked To Preempt State VOIP Regulation http://digg.com/u1HSpw

Using opendns with SIP does not seem to provide level of reliability one needs @patphelan Google releases it own DNS servers for your use

OpenDNS & VoIP = FAIL RT @voipusers: @mjgraves opendns killed our DID for 24 hrs, returned bad value for SIP proxy, dropped them, weak link

iPhone sales in China sucking wind. Not surprising considering iPhones sold by China Unicom = no Wi-Fi capabilities. http://ping.fm/goCNQ

k, now I wann go skiiing: Most snow ever at Whistler Nov ‘09 = total accumulation of 560cm (18 feet) of snowfall http://bit.ly/53Zn0d

HA! Nice description RT @WirelessWeek: Skype is launching some sort of marginally decipherable beta program for VoIP http://bit.ly/5zM7eg

Ok, so I know about tweexchange peeps, it seems to be busted. A simple and free alert when a twitter name I want comes up would be nice.

Someone needs to build a backorder app for twitter usernames. I see plenty of twitter names that are inactive or suspended, 1 that I want :|