[ale] [ANNC] ALE-NW @ SPSU MTG. for Thurs., Feb 13, 7:30pm

[JD]

Run with it! You are now the "expert."

On 02/13/2014 04:19 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> I've downloaded today for test purpose openmcu-ru windows binary and their
> myphone3 app for windows ( expecting flames :)
>  and seems to work out of box. Managed to get three of my home PCs connected.
> There is Linux packages/sources as well.
> 
> http://openmcu.ru/eng.htm
> 
> Also tried to download test DVD with openmeetings project but my PC crashed once
> and screw the md5. When I have more time I'll try again.
> 
>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/meetingslive/
> 
> some vmware images for test also ... newer versions
> 
> http://nightly.openmeetings.de/openmeetings/builds/vmware/
> 
> But I don't have idea what we are looking after as quality and features.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com
> <mailto:arxaaron at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     RE: Linux ETC BBB conference hosting
> 
>     Spoke to Crawford, our Linux ETC contact, just the other day
>     addressing another topic and we side lined into the issue of
>     our BBB conferencing status.
> 
>     We never really explored their offering due to the technical
>     complexities and logistics required to properly and interactively
>     broadcast (aka stream) our meetings -- really a lot of equipment,
>     setup time and work that would have primarily fallen on me to
>     make happen every month.  I rarely even get around to editing
>     and packaging the talks I record as it is.
> 
>     If the Big Blue Button service provided recording support for the
>     stream it MIGHT have seemed more worthwhile.  As it stands,
>     Crawfird says that the main BBB development fork is stagnant,
>     it only runs on Ubuntu 10.04 and really isn't worth their time and
>     effort to support any more.
> 
>     He recommended a commercially developed service using a fork
>     of BBB called Meeting Burner...
>     <http://www.meetingburner.com/index?page=features>
>     ...but the free version still doesn't have recording and the
>     front end equipment and setup issues are still a sticking point.
>