2009/5/13 Dave Cridland <d...@cridland.net>: > Folks, > > There's been, for a few weeks now, a discussion in the IETF about providing > a good framework for IETF meetings - mostly "interim" meetings, which are > meetings of around 30 people. > > The idea is to find product and/or technology to do these effectively. > > This is *not* a new protocol development team, this is purely > infrastructure, but I'm sending this to Standards@ as well as jdev@ to get a > better audience - if the vMeet people were given the suggestion of "download > FooClient" this would be a fine response, and actually preferable to > "Implement XEP-9945". Still, I'd prefer, personally, to have some open > standards, as well as implementation. > > The IETF has, for some time, used XEP-0045 to handle the text-based > conferencing. The interesting question to me is whether we could get a few > additional features relatively easily deployed in support of what they need. > > It looks like: > > 1) Multiway VOIP (with mixers).
What's this? > 2) Floor control, of some form. (Probably only affecting VOIP). This is > basically to emulate the "queue at the microphone", and the concept of a > "chair" (ie, "chairman") and various "presenters", in serial. > > 3) Slide sharing. I'm actually seriously thinking that what they need is the > simple ability to have a file sharing thing going on, then say what page of > the PDF is "currently shown". Something like this is possible in Coccinella. Instructions: 1) Convert slides to image files 2) Open directory with images of slideshow in whiteboard 3) Use Next/Previous buttons Obviously, it would be even easier if Coccinella can open a PDF file and automatically convert this to image files. Patches are welcome! > 4) Whiteboarding. Although it pains me to even mention the word, given what > seems to happen every time the subject is raised. See above. > Does anyone have anything that does all this already? Yup, at least 3 and 4. -- Mvg, Sander Devrieze. _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: jdev-unsubscr...@jabber.org _______________________________________________
