Re: [irsg] Join/Leave beeps, mic muting

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Christian Hopps <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > tl;dr 10 minute maximum pre-start time is not enough.

a) You can setup it to 15 minutes before.
b) You can just mark the meeting to start earlier.
c) You can setup a practive meeting... (I'm happy to help you)

> Also, what do people think about slide advancement conventions? Since most
> of our community (me included) doesn’t use WebEx that much, for our WG
> we’ve chosen to stick with the convention of having the chairs project and
> the speakers request slide advancement, instead of fumbling about with
> passing control to the speaker. Other groups I’ve attended recently have
> done the same. Is this pretty much universal practice, does anyone want to
> speak in favor of the “pass the ball” alternative?

Yes, do this.
Due to problems in webex at scale, turning sharing on/off a lot seems to
result some recipients loosing the share-feed and having to reload/restart.

The chair not projecting slides/advancing them, should take care of the
mute/unmute function.
(Kudos to Zoom for having the "Mute-All" function, but it doesn't let either
the host or the receiver decide which speaker to view video from. JITSI and
Whereby get this right)

So my advice is to open a new browser window, open each of the slide decks in a tab.
Share that window as an "Application" (vs as a whole screen, or a browser
tab), and then just switch tabs.  On Linux at least, this works great to
make that browser 800x600 or so, which makes it fit nicely in a corner.
Given how webex insists on resizing the chat window and stuff, the slides
never get more than that many pixels at my end anyway.

On OSX, apparently the Finder "File" header gets shared too, which makes
the browser application have a bounding box of your entire screen size.
I think that if you move the window to your other screen, then that goes
away, but I don't knkow.

And, letting people present their own slides guarantees that the slides we
see aren't the ones in the archive, and that they probably have some
irrelevant animation that does not translate to PDF well.
(I saw: irrelevant, because there are relevant animations.
I use https://github.com/monperrus/ExpandAnimations  very successfully.
You can only use appear/disappear)

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