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Re: Meetecho was Re: Concerns about Singapore

2016-04-12 07:36:14
On 12 Apr 2016, at 13:19, Mikael Abrahamsson 
<swmike(_at_)swm(_dot_)pp(_dot_)se> wrote:

I have spent the past meetings doing frequent jabber scribe work. I use 
Meetecho to do this, and I place myself next to the front participant mic (so 
I can see the name tag of the person speaking), and then I type on jabber the 
name of who the person speaking in the mic. There is (I've been told) now a 
suggestion to the IETF secritariat to reserve the seat next to the front mic 
(at table) for Jabber scribe, and this would be great. Now we just need to 
teach everybody to flash their badge to the jabber scribe as well.

I also do this, and agree it’s a good idea.

I have long offered to call out the slides (which is typically needed for 
people who are on audio+jabber only) if someone wanted it, but the past few 
meetings nobody has requested that. My guess is that most people use Meetecho 
because it gives the complete view of what's going on, you get 
chat+presentation+video+sound, and you can also ask questions (which was used 
numerous times in the sessions I participated in).

I also noticed that remote people don’t seem to want slide numbers called out 
now. Might be interesting to see if we have stats on numbers of people 
listening to the old school audio-only streams, or on non-Meetecho participants 
in Jabber (the login IDs of Meetecho people is distinctive there…), just to get 
some data points on current trends.

Generally, I'm very happy with Meetecho (wonders of HTML5+WEBRTC to be able 
to run this in just a browser). There were some initial sound problems on 
monday morning, but that was quickly rectified.

I also really appreciate the fact that I can call out "meetecho" in the 
jabber room to notify them of potential problems, and they immediately 
dispatch someone to fix the problem (including alerting the A/V crew if it's 
a local issue).

Just like Beetlejuice :)

So while there were a few hiccups, I'd say most of the time Meetecho and the 
local A/V works great.

Agreed.

Tim


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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike(_at_)swm(_dot_)pp(_dot_)se