Thanks Andrea for your quick reply, and specially for correcting my mistaken
idea.
Bandwidth: what a coincidence, I was just reading a jitsi.org thread
http://lists.jitsi.org/pipermail/users/2017-June/013240.html
that brought that into my radar. The truth is I hadn't thought of that,
considering commercial webinar services offer hundreds of attendees, without
jerking a muscle. I suppose they have their own servers, something I don't
have, except for my own computer.
I suppose my computer, the bandwidth I receive from the phone company would be
my server, right?
I haven't looked into the calculations given in that Jitsi thread, but is there
an easy way of calculating the bandwidth use if only presenter has Audio/video
tuned on? I don't really expect to get so many attendees: I'll be lucky if
there are 10, 25 would make me very happy, and I don't dare say in a public
venue what might happen to me with 50 or more... I'd probably divide those
registrants into two different groups with different dates.
Thanks again Andrea for your help. If the attendees would have to go through
all the rough work, I'd had to give up.
Now I can move forward with more confidence.
Richard
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On Sat, 8/7/17, Andrea Croci <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: Re: OpenMeetings Broadcaster vs OpenMeetings Receiver
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, 8 July, 2017, 17:46
No Richard, by no means will the
"receivers" have to install anything at
all in their computers. You will install and
configure Openmeetings on
your server and
they will watch your webinars with a browser, following
a link you will provide. It's very easy
indeed. Having said that, beware
of how
many prospect people you will have watching you webinar,
because
you may have bandwidth issues.
Saludos, Andrea.
On 08.07.2017 22:59, Richard Pérez wrote:
> Dear all advocates:
>
> I am not an app
developer, I scarcely get around as an advanced user of
software.
> For some time I have been
looking for a Webinar service so I can offer my
colleagues,
> and anyone interested in
professional translation, a webinar where I can deliver
my
> experience and, maybe, increase my
income a bit. However I have crashed with the
> inability of all webinar companies (the
Goto, the Jam, Any, and a long etcetera) to provide
> payment options for everyone. They are
all centered on Credit Cards or PayPal (which is
> the same as credit cards). Some of them
even offer false or misleading advertising on their
> websites saying they accept wire transfer,
but when you ask them to provide the details they
> disappear (Goto), or they answer with
links to pay with a credit card (Zoom) and when they
> finally answer to the question, they say
they only accept bank transfer if you pay a whole
year's
> subscription (many hundreds
or thousands of dollars), despite they were well aware I
could only
> pay by month. I am not
rich, and I don't have access to a credit card, and
these companies are
> not capable of
offering other payment systems (like Skrill, Xoom, and
others). Why they don't?
> The easy
answer is they are idiots because they might be losing
business opportunities, focusing
> only
on the "big money", but maybe there is another
reason.
> Well, I won't rant
anymore.
>
> I am here
because I thought I might be able to adopt OpenMeetings,
maybe the only alternative
> to a market
which really is only for an elite. I have worked with open
source software before
> (like Joomla -
even tweaking its inner organs to create my own
functionalities), but of course,
> with
much help from the experts or finding common solutions to
problems on the Internet, so I am
> very
aware and grateful of the fantastic work you do. If I can
do this with OpenMeetings, even if it
>
takes time, it would be very worthwhile. However, although I
am confident, the problems I have
> found
installing, configuring and creating a webinar with
OpenMeetings, can be solved eventually,
>
there is one issue that might not have an easy solution at
this moment. I must say this mail is not
> purposed to criticize but to understand
OpenMeetings real functionalities at all levels, at this
point
> of time.
>
> This issue would be the following:
> Me, as OpenMeetings-Webinar manager, host
and presenter or “broadcaster”, I should go into all
the
> tasks required to have it up and
running effectively and efficiently (ideal but not
impossible) to deliver a
> given webinar
or provide a meeting place. This requires lots of
downloading, installing many different
>
apps, changing settings in my computer, solving quite a few
install and usability issues, and creating
> an appropriate guide with access
procedures for my “receivers”, those who will watch my
webinar(s)
> to register and enter the
meeting as easily as possible.
>
> However, if my “receivers” have to go
through that same process, downloading, installing, etc.,
most
> probably I won’t have any
“receiver”, even if my webinar was worth a Grammy.
>
> Most commercial
webinar services just require one download and a simple
activation.
>
> Please
correct me if I’m wrong, but, with OpenMeetings, must
those users who will be “receiving”
>
my “broadcast” go through the same procedures with
imagemagick, FFMpeg, Ghostscript, SWFtools,
> SOX, Environment variables, install and
configure OpenMeetings, screensharing download, and
> whatever else I haven’t discovered
yet? Or is there a way for “receivers” to enter a room
with a simple
> download and a pair of
clicks?
>
> Please
excuse for such a lengthy post, including the rant, and I
hope anyone can give me a bit of light on
> this, the “receivers” side.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
Richard
