Re: [vmeet] meetecho for remote presenters

Meetecho IETF support <ietf@meetecho.com> Tue, 05 April 2016 14:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [vmeet] meetecho for remote presenters
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Il 05/04/2016 01:31, HANSEN, TONY L ha scritto:
> Some comments from my remote experiences today.
>
> First off, meetecho is a VAST improvement over how remote access used
> to be, and it's getting better every meeting. Thanks!!!
>
>
> However, there's always room for improvement:
>
>
> I agree with Michael. Right now if you double click on the video, it
> fills in the area where the slides were and covers large amounts of
> space and the slides disappear.
>
> I too would like to (once in a while) SWAP the video and slides. When
> there's a remote speaker, the same issue can arise. That is, move the
> slides up to where the list of video streams are currently shown and
> move that video image into the space where the slides normally are.
>
> One way to do this would be have a two-headed arrow below each item
> in that top row. Click it and the item swaps position with the large
> display. Any of the items could then fill the large area or be shown
> in small while not in the large area.
>
>
>
> Another improvement: there don't seem to be tooltips over the icons
> on the right side to explain what they do. I tried clicking some of
> them, but it wasn't always evident what they were supposed to do. One
> time, I lost all sight of the slides and no matter what I tried, I
> couldn't get back to the slides. I wound up doing a refresh on the
> browser to restore things.
>

There are tooltips. They all show up right next to the first icon, in 
the right hand side of the screen. See here for examples:

http://ietf95.conf.meetecho.com/index.php/Remote_Participation#iconography

>
> Another improvement: the remembered name and registration number are
> on a per-room basis, because the java code is using a session object
> stored on the server and there is a server per room. While this is
> certainly an improvement over previous meetings where meetecho never
> seemed to remember anything, I do wish meetecho had instead used a
> cookie shared across all of the rooms to encode that information.
>

Will improve this in the next version, thanks for the feedback.

>
> If Meetecho wants to put up an improved version in beta during the
> meeting to try out any improvements, I'm willing to participate.
>

Ha! You kidding, right? :)
Jokes apart, we have no time to make changes to Meetecho code during the 
meeting.

Cheers,
the Meetecho team

>
> Thanks Meetecho!
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>
>
> On 4/4/16, 5:28 PM, "vmeet on behalf of Michael Richardson"
> <vmeet-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> I did the same presentation twice today in two WGs (to deal with
>> cross-WG issues).
>>
>> Things that I would like to have: 1) big video with small slides.
>> the choices are - big slides and many video, or - video fills
>> entire screen, no slides.
>>
>> 2) a camera pointed at the room, or at least the
>> question-microphone.
>>
>> Basically, I'd like to see the room I'm speaking to... the chairs
>> table is boring, and too far away for me to see if they have
>> "confused" looks on their faces...
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