Re: Pink Squares

[Simon Pietro Romano <spromano@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello Tony,

*) On a couple occasions, the remote queuing microphone did not succeed.

We all saw the pacman approaching the mike, but then nothing would come
across.

Actually, this was not due to technical issues. What happened was that some remote participants just hit the “raise your hand” button by mistake. They didn’t have any intention to inject their audio into the room, but rather thought that the "raise your hand” icon should be used to mute themselves. Indeed, since the virtual queue was a brand new thing for most IETFfers, it was not always 100% intuitive how to properly use it. We tried to make life easier for everybody by publishing ad hoc documentation about the experiment here:

http://ietf93.conf.meetecho.com/index.php/UMPIRE_Project

*) One suggestion for when the meetecho techs are engrossed elsewhere is
that there be a way for the chairs to override the settings.

Good point. This can indeed be easily done: if a chair wants to act as the Meetecho “director” of his session’s virtual room, we can definitely enable such functionality for him. All you need is to open a URL in your web page and play with the remote controls.

*) To that end, having a few "pre-sets" for the camera would be
valuable: the pink square, the chairs, the speaker, and the mike(s).
Click, and the camera is pointing at the right spot with the proper zoom
level.

This is what we actually do. When the session starts, if nobody is playing with the controls, the camera points at the pink box, with no zoom.

Hope this helps,

Simon

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