I like the idea of common address book but it will NOT work in iframe so it can be resolved in 3.0 only
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Alexei Fedotov <alexei.fedo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello folks, Sebastian, > > I suggest the new concept for openmeetings. This is not a real innovation, > just a copy of a newer thing than before. > > We will implement a new address book for openmeetings which looks like > android address book. I'm writing this to collect your feedback before we > start coding. > > Basicly we add all other contacts below those who already participates in > the conference. When one drugs and drops offline contact on the board the > invitation to join the conference is sent via specified channels including > mail and jabber. For touch interfaces left-to-right gesture on the contact > does the thing (this already works on my Android). Yes, we start adopting > the thing for windows 8 pad experience (and get ubuntu pad working as > well). > > All offline contacts are hidden in a tab by default, so the default look > resembles the one we have now. > > The new book will be available in an iframe and will use wicket. > Android-like call animations will be implemented on the top of jquery (and > maybe some other lib in the middle). > > Separating the book from the board is another srep in our gradual flash to > html5 transition. > > After we do basics, further ideas include the following improvements. > > It will likely require a lightweight http-tunnelled jabber to be > implemented on openmeetings side (likely as an independently developed > apache licensed component jar - independency on the build level will help > better reuse and testing) to add jabber transport for address book > invitations. This can help migrating the whole chat to jabber, so > openmeetings chat will integrate to different im networks. The whole thing > would help to light a green light for thise who are online and distribute > invitation urls to tgem via different im networks. > > Some other ideas include importing contacts by ldap, from google and social > networks, managing duplicates. > Some "special users" do more on receiving invitation. They automatically > turn on camera and join the meeting. This effectively turns openmeetings > into video survilliance system. :-) Yet some people may take advance of > placing cameras in a cafeteria. > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
