Online voicechat?

[Deborah Norling]

I've been doing hobby stuff on linux now for about three years, and am
really craving the chance to voice-chat online with other blind linux users.
Hacking in my garage is getting kind of lonely!
 
I know of only two possibilities; both don't work well for me.
 
One is to hang out on the speakup reflector which involves installing
SpeakFreely either on my Windows laptop or one of my linux machines. The
problem with this is that I'm behind a hardware router and don't want any of
my machines connected directly to the internet. From what I've read,
speakfreely won't work with NAT.
 
The second possibility is to join the Thursday night Linux chat on
www.for-the-people.com. These people are a wonderful community but I'm not
active enough, so my membership keeps expiring.  Tonight, I tried to log in
to join the chat, but I no longer exist in their database. I am embarrassed
to ask them to renew my membership now for the fourth time.
 
I live in California, so their Linux chat which starts at 5 PM is usually
happening when I'm commuting home from my job. So I will only participate
occasionally and don't want to keep asking  a human to add me to the
database yet again.
 
Does anyone know of any other possibilities? I'd like the same free-form
experience that people have when they go to a Linux user group in a coffee
shop, just sitting around chatting without worries about anything being
off-topic.
 
--Debee
 
 
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