[the announcement relayed is worth noting, because it seems this
manufacturer makes free an otherwise paid access to webex, during these
times of virus with a crown]
[this is probably better discussed on the 'manycouches' email list,
which is more focused on the aspects of remote attendance]
Le 03/03/2020 à 03:00, Cullen Jennings a écrit :
Just as bit of information for folks about a change in Webex …
One of the concerns in the past has been access to local dial in
numbers and cost of Webex. Due to COVID-19 situation, during this
time, Cisco is making webex free for most places it operates and for
meetings up to 100 people. You can find more details and the fine
print at
https://blog.webex.com/video-conferencing/cisco-webex-supporting-customers-during-this-unprecedented-time/
The WebRTC version of webex works in my favorite browsers so no need
to install anything proprietary.
Webex is preparing to add multiple billions of minutes of month more
of capacity to the existing billions of minutes it currently sees
(yah cloud and thanks to whoever designed this scaleable internet
thing ).
I’m only providing this updated information as this tool is often
used by IETF WGs. I’m perfectly happy if the IETF chooses to use
hangouts, or zoom, or MS Teams, meet echo, or whatever you like
Me too I am happy about these tools in general.
In particular I am unhappy with some aspects of them.
One aspect that is important to me, happened last time I tried to attend
remotely: I was told that I needed to register to the meeting prior to
joining a meeting.
I find it unnecessary to register prior to joining a meeting. When I
participate in other meetings (elsewhere than at IETF) I am provided
with an URL, I click on it, and there I am in the meeting. I do not
need to register, and even less to pay.
The technical reasons I was given for this necessity to register relates
to analysis to understand the participant origin and behaviour
(available publicly at
https://www.ietf.org/about/administration/reports/). It is
understandable, but it might happen in a simpler manner - request the
participants to type in their names, origins etc at the moment of
joining (e.g. webex as a pre-filled field of 20 characters or so that
contains my name, I could put there just the initials, some country
code, etc.)
If, on the other hand, the reason of need registration prior to
attending has to do with payment, then we're on a totally different
discussion. That too might be addressed; and now, in this time of virus
with a crown, in a different manner.
- I
am only providing some info about the greatly expanded ability to use
a tool we often use. If you find this free tool helpful, great, if
you do not, please forgive me for adding one more unhelpful message
to this, uh words fail me, mailing list.
This makes me think why not trying this tool during some of the meetings.
Alex
