Hi everyone, It's great news that York University will be upgrading our instance of Breeze to the latest version of Adobe Connect 7. There will be an outage tomorrow between 7 pm and midnight EDT, and another one in August.
Colin Begin forwarded message: > From: Rob Finlayson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: July 25, 2008 3:13:36 PM GMT-04:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Outage of Breeze service to prepare for upgrade - Tuesday > July 29th 7pm - midnight > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > Next month, during the break between terms, CNS will upgrade > Macromedia Breeze 5.2 to Adobe Connect Pro 7. This is a major > upgrade. For those of you wondering, yes, there was a Connect > version 6.0. That version added very little additional functionality > and was mostly an exercise to re-brand the Macromedia product. > Connect Pro 7, now part of the Adobe Acrobat family of projects, > brings a number of new features and feature enhancements that will > be of interest to the community . Here are just three: > > - Recordings -- you will now be able to edit recordings as well as > move them from the server to a CD or Web site. You will also be able > to now edit an download recordings made Breeze after the upgrade. > - Audio -- audio is now separate from video, so you can now select > to have just audio with no video. The "Camera and Voice" pod is no > longer part of the default layout and is no longer required just to > broadcast audio to your audience. By separating the audio it is now > possible to "pass the mic." > > - Breakout Rooms -- now you can create breakout rooms within a > meeting room to use during the meeting. The breakout rooms function > as separate entities with their own audio, video, and layouts. > Participants are automatically promoted to Participants when > entering a breakout room so they will have access to all of the pods > and tools the Host has made available to them. Content from the > breakout rooms can be shared with the entire group in the main > meeting room. > > We'll be sending additional information soon about new features and > changes in application functionality. Almost all content will > continue to function as it does now, so the upgrade will be > transparent to most users. Again, we'll be providing specific > information about what you can expect with existing content in a > separate email in the coming days. > > To facilitate the preparatory work required for this upgrade there > will be a 5 hours service outage this coming Tuesday, July 29th from > 7pm through midnight. There will be another service outage schedule > for later in August to complete the upgrade. > > If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > . > > Rob Finlayson > Manager, Faculty Support Centre > Computing and Network Services > > 1057 TEL > 4700 Keele St. > York University, Toronto, Canada M3J 1P3 > P: 416-736-2100 ext. 30341 > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.yorku.ca/fsc/ --- Colin Clark Technical Lead, Fluid Project Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto http://fluidproject.org _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
