Re: [108attendees] Successful IETF 108

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

> On 2020-08-04, at 19:08, Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> On Aug 4, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> Can you explain how meetecho does not support removing microphone access?
> 
> Meetecho is clunky and unreliable. It was hard to even get to speak. The UX was terrible.

I wrote up some 20 annoyances about meetecho over in tools-discuss, so I think I know what you mean.

> Yes, you can cut the mic, but if you do, you’ve cut it. In zoom, I can mute someone who’s making noise when they shouldn’t be,

(Which doesn’t happen a lot in meetecho because it appropriately has a more explicit concept of floor control.)

> I can see who’s making noise,

(Among those 20 annoyances, and picked up by the meetecho folks as a priority request.)

> I can un-mute them when they want to talk and can’t figure out the mute button,

(That might be a controversial feature.)

> and I can see peoples’ faces to know that they want to talk when they are a bit shy. 

Adding a gallery view of the attendance might be a nice feature request.

So I agree Zoom may be more appropriate for your meditation classes.
For teaching, I like BigBlueButton (and so do other SDOs for their meetings, I hear).
With a few features stolen from that, meetecho could be quite useful.

Grüße, Carsten