Re: [Tools-discuss] Screen sharing for slides

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Am 21.11.2020 um 07:39 schrieb Carsten Bormann:
> I was in several sessions this week where the chairs screen-shared the slides and the presenters had to wake up the chairs to get the next slide.
> I’m not sure whether that was just habit because Webex tends to break when the presenter changes, or to shield presenters from issues of their platform in screen sharing, or maybe because the chairs need to keep control over unruly presenters.
>
> I’m used to presenting slides in BBB (the big blue button web meeting system).
> This allows uploading slides (in PDF) to the meeting system; these are then downloaded to the participants and the only information that needs to be updated in real time is the number of the slide currently being shown.  This also frees the screen of the presenter so they can focus on the meeting and less on window juggling and operating system bugs in screen/application window sharing.
>
> (The one misfeature that BBB has is that you already have to have been assigned the presenter token to be able to even upload slides; this could be done in a more dynamic way.)
>
> In BBB, there also is a whiteboard overlayed over the slides; the presenter can use a simple cursor or actually draw on the slide.  The whiteboard can also be opened for all to draw.
>
> BBB still has screen sharing (you want to be able to do demos etc), but presentations are usually supported by shared slides.
>
> Many professional conference support services integrate BBB into their offerings, so I’m led to think this BBB feature might be (relatively) easy to integrate into meetecho.
>
> Grüße, Carsten
> ...

That sounds like a great feature to have.

Another thing that might be helpful to people with multi-monitor setups
would be to allow detaching more parts, sch as the sceen sharing part.

Best regards, Julian